Re: [Kaldi-developers] GridEngine (or similar) on Red Hat

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Thanks a lot!
Dan

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Tony Robinson <to...@sp...> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> .rpms do have dependency information, but rpm as a command doesn't know
> how to deal with unknown dependencies.   So either it works or you spend
> hours trying to do it manually - not fun and not maintainable so I'd
> rule out using rpms directly.   Yum is the interface one layer up that
> deals with dependencies, I like it better than apt-get (which still gets
> in a mess far too often - but I'm now back to using over a decade later).
>
> A quick look at son of grid engine says that it's Redhat/CentOS 5/6 not
> 7.   The last release date is 23-Oct-2014.  I don't think this gets us
> anywhere as the instructions below will install on Redhat/CentOS 5/6
> anyway (it does get a more recent release and more complex
> functionality, but we don't need that).
>
> Instructions for Redhat/CentOS 6 are below.
>
>
> Tony
>
> # To install all
>
> yum -y install gridengine-qmaster gridengine-execd gridengine-qmon
>
> # note that gridengine-qmon has broken graphics dependencies on CentOS6
> so most hosts only need:
>
> yum -y install gridengine-execd
>
> # for gridmaster only
>
> cd /usr/share/gridengine
> ./install_qmaster
>
> # take defaults except:
> #
> # install as root (first questions)
> # do not enable the JMX MBean server
> # use classic database
> # use email to...@ca...
> # add code0,code1,...  or use /home/tonyr/hosts
> # no shadow hosts
>
> # For all other hosts
>
> # For a new machine, on an *existing* host:
> qconf -ah code41.cantabResearch.com
> qconf -as code41.cantabResearch.com
>
> # On the new machine
> cd /usr/share/gridengine
> scp -rp code6:/usr/share/gridengine/default /usr/share/gridengine
> rm -f /usr/share/gridengine/default/common/accounting
> ./install_execd
> # and say yes to everything (CR)
>
> # and add everyone as a administrator
>
> qconf -am tonyr,**DELETED**
>
> You wouldn't believe how many years it took to get the instructions down
> to this level of simplicity...
>
> On 05/05/15 20:24, Daniel Povey wrote:
>> It would be nice to know at least the outline of how you installed it
>> on CentOS 6.
>>
>> I notice that the son of grid engine project here
>> http://arc.liv.ac.uk/downloads/SGE/releases/8.1.8/
>> seems to have both .rpm and .deb packages.  I assume this means one
>> could get the packages from there and at least try to install them on
>> RedHat-type systems?  I don't know if the .rpm packages contain the
>> dependency information?
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Tony Robinson <to...@sp...> wrote:
>>> CentOS 6 works fine and I can provide exact step-by-step instructions to
>>> make it work if that helps.
>>>
>>> gridEngine isn't supported in CentOS 7 (or not when I looked) - so we
>>> moved away from CentOS.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> On 05/05/15 19:45, Daniel Povey wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Does anyone on this list have any advice or experience for installing
>>>> some kind of GridEngine on Red Hat linux or related distributions?
>>>> Generally speaking I advise people to use Debian if they want
>>>> GridEngine because it has packages that work.  But I'm wondering if
>>>> there is a solution available for Red Hat or Red Hat-derived
>>>> distributions.
>>>> Dan
>>>>
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