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ParaStation5 Administrator's Guide 83
Appendix A. Quick Installation Guide
This appendix gives a brief overview how to install ParaStation5 on a cluster. A detailed description can be
found in Chapter 3, Installation and Chapter 4, Configuration.
1. Shutdown
If this is an update of ParaStation, first shut down the ParaStation system. In order to do this, startup
psiadmin and issue a shutdown command.
# /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin
psiadmin> shutdown
This will terminate all currently running tasks controlled by ParaStation, including psiadmin.
2. Get the installation packages
Get the necessary installation packages from the download section of the ParaStation homepage
www.parastation.com. Required packages are psmgmt, pscom and psmpi2. The documentation
package psdoc is optional.
If you want to compile the packages yourself, download the source packages (*.src.rpm) and rebuild it,
using the rpmbuild command, e.g.:
# rpmbuild --rebuild psmgmt.5.0.0-0.src.rpm
# rpm -U psmgmt.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild pscom.5.0.0-0.src.rpm
# rpm -U pscom.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm
# rpm -U pscom-modules.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm
# rpmbuild --rebuild psmpi2.5.0.0-1.src.rpm
# rpm -U psmpi2.5.0.0-1.i586.rpm
The psmgmt package must be installed before the pscom package may be built, similar for pscom and
psmpi2. If you only want to rebuild the kernel modules for the p4sock protocol, use
# rpmbuild --rebuild --with modules pscom.5.0.0-0.src.rpm
This will render a RPM package with the ParaStation kernel modules suitable for your setup.
3. Install software on the server
Install the ParaStation distribution files on the server machine, if not yet done:
# rpm -U psmgmt.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm pscom.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm \
pscom-modules.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm psmpi2.5.0.0-1.i586.rpm \
psdoc.5.0.0-0.noarch.rpm
4. Install software on the compute nodes
Repeat step 3 for each node. You may omit the documentation package.
5. Configuration
Next, the configuration file parastation.conf has to be adapted to the local settings. The
template file /opt/parastation/config/parastation.conf.tmpl should be copied to /etc/
parastation.conf and adjusted to the local needs. The configuration could be verified using the
command test_config(1) located in /opt/parastation/bin.
This configuration file must be copied to all other nodes.
6. Startup ParaStation