[help] Installing Pelican HPC on Harddisk and Remastering Pelican HPC

[andrewraharjo]

Hello everyone @ PelicanHPC,

I am currently new member and user here, please allow me to share my problems with my main Cluster Computing Idea.
For few weeks, I have been tried to install a Cluster Computing Distro in my network environment. Let we said, Kestrel HPC, Beowulf, PelicanHPC, and Kerrighed. Most of them are live CD, and they don't copy their original files into the hard drive. Okay, here is what I wanted to do;



I have a desire to make a Drive Installed HPC on my network system. List of what I want are:

1) Make a Installed HPC Drive on Server 1- I tried to remastering HPC with JeOS ubuntu server, Somebody please help me what should I do ? :)

2) Place database @ Server 2 as storage network / NFS and make Server 2 link with Server 1

3) Server 1 HPC do MPI calculation with Server 2 data and sent it with PXE boot to PC1, etc

4) S1 is a DHCP Switch or router that I have, so actually I don't need to reconfigure it, just a hub to make a PXE topology

Ok those are that I want to do, just my need to know, and to share, is it possible to do ? and if we said yes, then what should I do first ?

Other case, I just need to install HPC Pelican on my drive, that's it

Cheers

[Michael Creel]

It looks possible, but way outside the scope of PelicanHPC. I think that KestrelHPC, ABC GNU/Linux or Rocks would be more suited to what you want to do. Good luck with the project!

[andrewraharjo]

Hey Michael, thanks for your reply, Few weeks before I started Pelican HPC, I have been tried Rocks and Kestrel. This "small" project, which I try to do, is to make a new Pelican HPC remastering CD. It will be installed on Hard drive, but I know it will make a problem with /swap when I do the installation. I need to know what should I do to create /swap with Pelican HPC. It seems possible to do, but I still don't get it. Actually, I'm still in Cluster Computing learning progress (or can we said as a noob :D). This is my big curiosity with Pelican HPC.


Regards

[Michael Creel]

swap space is not a problem, you can use mkswap to create it and swapon to use it. Just see the man pages for those two commands. Perhaps you're thinking of something else?

[andrewraharjo]

Thanks for your concern...

Start today, I started with new idea...

1) First of all, I downloaded PelicanHPC iso, actually, I realized that I used PelicanHPC 2.2 but it's ok :D, then saved into my USB

2) Next step of my idea is to install a fresh new server, I used Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, into my network and place a DHCP server, tftp, and PXE boot- Until here I was successfully installed new server. :D

3) Then, I tried to mount and place PelicanHPC iso @my Ubuntu Sever

4) copy all of content from PelicanHPC mounted iso into tftp directory, then add a new configuration @ my boot loader configuration, (Append bla bla bla :D)

5) Setup one node and fire it up!!

-----so What is my question ?------

My question is...when I reached boot and tried to select PelicanHPC at my bootsplash, it won't started..
It such like an error with my nfs, but I dunno why... so this is my curiosity, what should I do to make it happen ? Boot PelicanHPC from PXE server

Thanks

[Michael Creel]

Setting up netboot is can be a bit difficult, because there are lots of little things to take care of. A running PelicanHPC frontend is a netboot server that serves up copies of PelicanHPC, and that's just what you want to do, but from an installed Ubuntu host. There's no reason it should not work. I suggest setting up a frontend in the normal way and then study the netboot configuration (in /var/lib/tftpboot, if I recall correctly). Copying that to your ubuntu host should work, I think, perhaps with some minor adjustments.

[andrewraharjo]

http://pelicanhpc.788819.n4.nabble.com/A-PelicanHPC-Setup-That-Works-for-me-Hardware-and-Software-Configurations-td2069021.html

I've been tried to follow this project, but I can't find any link to download live-helper_2.0~a10-1_all.deb. It said that I need to install live-helper using the source package, rather than the .deb. I tried to click the source but it will be 404 appeared. So please tell me, where I can find live helper.deb? Thank you

[Michael Creel]

You need the version in Debian stable, which can be obtained here:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=live-helper&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all