Beowulf Installation and Administration HOWTO (DRAFT)

Jacek Radajewski jacek@usq.edu.au

1. Preamble

• 1.1 Disclaimer
• 1.2 Copyright
• 1.3 About this HOWTO
• 1.4 About the author
• 1.5 Acknowledgements

2. Introduction

3. Quick Start (disk-less clients).

• 3.1 Setup and configure hardware.
• 3.2 Install OS.
• 3.3 Configure Disk-less Clients.
• 3.4 Create Disk-less client boot floppies.
• 3.5 Create File Systems for the Clients.

4. Designing The Cluster

• 4.1 Disk
• 4.2 Memory
• 4.3 CPU
• 4.4 Network
• 4.5 Which Distribution ?
• 4.6 Buying Hardware

5. Installing Master Server

• 5.1 Partition sizes
• 5.2 Installing Red Hat Linux
• 5.3 Network configuration
• 5.4 Setting up DNS
• 5.5 /etc/hosts
• 5.6 /etc/resolv.conf
• 5.7 /etc/hosts.equiv
• 5.8 Security

6. Setting up clients

• 6.1 Cloning clients
• 6.2 Installing OS on each client.
• 6.3 Configuring disk-less clients
• 6.4 How to access clients' consoles ?
• 6.5 Installing the operating system on each client separately.

7. Monitoring System's Performance

• 7.1 bWatch
• 7.2 Using httpd and CGI scripts.
• 7.3 Netpipe

8. References and Other Sources of Information

9. adcn script

10. setup_template script

11. firewall script