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3.6.1
Installing Rocks and InfiniPath RPMs
The following instructions are for building a Rocks 4.0.0 cluster with the 2.6.9 Linux
kernel. It will install both the QLogic PathScale compilers and InfiniPath. These
instructions are guidelines only; you will need to refer to material on the Rocks web
site to complete an installation. If you want to use later versions of Rocks, these
instructions will serve as general procedural steps.
The steps are summarized first, then more details are given in the corresponding
numbered steps in the next section.
1. Download the required rolls from the Rocks web site:
http://www.rocksclusters.org/
2. Build the front end node with these rolls.
3. Download and install the config and kickstart RPMs onto the front end node.
4. Download and install the InfiniPath RPMs onto the front end node.
5. Create a directory that contains the config, kickstart, and InfiniPath RPMs on
the front end node.
6. Create the xml file /home/install/site-profiles/4.0.0/nodes/extend-compute.xml
7. Use the customized xml file to complete the installation. This file describes the
contents of the kickstart config file to install the RPMs from the front end node
onto all the other nodes. As this is a Rocks-specific process, you are referred
to the Rocks web site for further step-by-step instructions.
3.6.2
Installing Rocks and InfiniPath RPMs-Details
This section fills in the installation details for the numbered steps listed above.
1. Download the required rolls from the Rocks web site. Go to:
http://www.rocksclusters.org/ftp-site/
Follow links to the following CDs:
Boot Roll: Rocks 4.0.0 X86_64 Compute ISO
(Area51+Base+Ganglia_HPC+Java+Kernel+SGE)
OS Roll - Disk 1
OS Roll - Disk 2
You will also need:
updates-4.0.0-0.x86_64.disk1.iso
2. Build the front end node with the above CDs. For more details see the Rocks
installation documentation on the Rocks web site.
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3 – Software Installation
Managing and Installing Software Using Rocks
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