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6 Cluster Installation
6.1 Introduction
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a sample install session for the Ammasso 1100
adapter software (AMSO1100), MPICH and DAPL packages. From the install on one node,
the software is then deployed to several nodes across a cluster. The steps to install on an
initial node in the cluster are different than those used for the follow on cluster nodes. Both
procedures are documented. This document lists steps that are specific to SuSE 9.1 64 bit
systems.
6.2 Steps on the Initial Build System
Full AMSO1100, MPICH and DAPL builds are only required for one node within a cluster
provided all nodes within the cluster have the same Linux distribution, patch level and
processor type. The node to be used for the build is referred to as the “initial build system”
within this document. The remaining systems in the cluster will be referred to as the “cluster
nodes”.
6.2.1 Prepare the Kernel
1. If this is the first time this system has been used to build AMSO1100, prepare the kernel.
This step needs to be done as the root user. A full make is needed for SuSE 9.1 since
<kernel_dir>/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.s
is only created after
a full make (
vmlinux.lds.s
is different from
vmlinux.lds.S
). It is not
necessary to do full kernel installs on all distributions.
# uname -a
Linux blade-39 2.6.4-52-smp #1 SMP Wed Apr 7 01:58:54 UTC 2004 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
# cd /usr/src
# ls -l
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2004-11-06 23:38 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2004-11-07 18:25 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2004-11-06 23:38 linux -> linux-2.6.4-52
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2004-12-08 13:21 linux-2.6.4-52
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2004-11-06 23:43 packages
# cd linux-2.6.4-52
# make mrproper
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output cleaning the current configuration
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# make cloneconfig
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output configuring the kernel
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# make
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full kernel make, takes about 30 minutes
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