You can't, in general, mix grid engine versions -- not 6.2u5 with
anything earlier, I'm pretty sure.  The qmaster messages file probably
says so.  Trying to can crash the qmaster
<https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE/ticket/1441>.

Alan McKay <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Reuti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> There is no need to install GridEngine on the new node at all. Usually you 
>> share /usr/sge or alike and have access to binaries and (more important) the 
>> shared configuration of the actual used cell (like /usr/sge/default/common) 
>> so that the execd knowns the actual qmaster which it has to contact.
>
> Well I tried to do an install from my /gridware/sge NFS mount and it
> told me that the version of GridEngine which is there was no
> compatible with my Ubuntu 13.04 box.

I suspect it didn't recognize the kernel, in which case it's trivially
fixable, but that won't avoid having to stop the cluster and rebuild the
system to get off the older version.

>> How is your setup right now and how do the other nodes know about the actual 
>> qmaster? Are all GridEngine binaries local or already shared?
>
> The are all on /gridware/sge e.g.
>
> [root@solexa4 ~]# ps -ef | grep sge
> sgeadmin  4553     1  0 Sep16 ?        00:41:52
> /gridware/sge/bin/lx24-amd64/sge_execd
>
> But given the above problem I was going to go with local install.   On
> Ubuntu there is /etc/default/gridengine and so I set in there :

I strongly suggest not using the current Debian packages.  The SoGE
distribution (see link below) has Debian packaging for a shared
installation.  Otherwise, there's a snapshot ("gridengine.debian") of an
attempt to replace the official Debian packaging in
<http://arc.liv.ac.uk/downloads/SGE/snapshots/>.

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