On Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:59:00 Steven Tucker wrote: > I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of > 20 nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a > lot of MPI. My problem is that I periodically get asked to include > some library or program to help out with some ones research code, > and often it is something that needs to be installed across all > nodes. > > On my Mageia cluster I simply run urpmi parallel, issue the one > command and it installs across all nodes. For those not familiar > with urpmi parallel, it queries all the nodes asking what rpms are > needed to install the given software (including all dependencies), > it then downloads all the rpms to the machine running urpmi, it > then pushes the appropriate rpms to each node and installs them.
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