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  yum install -y gridengine-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-devel-8.1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm gridengine-execd-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-qmaster-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-qmon-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
  yum install -y gridengine-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-devel-8.1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm gridengine-execd-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-qmaster-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-qmon-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
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For a worker node this is rather excessive, but such is the nature of the binary-chek stage of the "install_exec" script that all of these are necessary.
  
 
== copying the default/common directory over to the node ==
 
== copying the default/common directory over to the node ==
  
 
== chown -R sgeadmin.gridware sge ==
 
== chown -R sgeadmin.gridware sge ==

Revision as of 14:40, 5 September 2016

Introduction

After Oracle bought Sun and then shut-sourced the Sun Grid Engine, Open Grid Engine made a release based SGEv5 in 2012 which hey called GE2011. However there were no further releases. Then ARC at the University of Liverpool started releasing its "Son of Gridengine and have been maintaining updates to it at least as far March 2016.

Until September 2016, the Queue manager in the marvin cluster was GE2011 which was getting a bit old, so when the queue manager failed due to a corrupted database

Steps

Getting the XML::Simple perl module

The RPMForge Extra repository are need for this. These can be installed via an RPM, and afterwards the Extra branch of the repo much be enabled as it is not enabled by default.


Install the Son of Gridware RPMs

yum install -y gridengine-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-devel-8.1.9-1.el6.noarch.rpm gridengine-execd-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-qmaster-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm gridengine-qmon-8.1.9-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

For a worker node this is rather excessive, but such is the nature of the binary-chek stage of the "install_exec" script that all of these are necessary.

copying the default/common directory over to the node

chown -R sgeadmin.gridware sge