All Posts Tagged With: "apple"

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Cluster user training

On the same trip to India, I found myself in the position of delivering a training session to a room with incredibly varied backgrounds and skill levels. Some folks had never edited a file on the Unix command line before. Others just wanted to know where MPICH was installed. This set of [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Inquiry Cluster Admin Slides

I recently took a trip to Kolkata, India to train users and administrators of an Apple / Inquiry compute cluster there. The slides I developed for that trip may be of general interest, and so I’m sharing them here. The intent of these slides is to provide an overview of the administrative tools [...]

21Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Setting up LOM on an Apple XServe from the command line

Apple provides a GUI for setting up the IP address and authentication information on the LOM. The problem, for me, with using a GUI for something like this is that it’s nearly impossible to script and automate. When I’m setting up a cluster of even a dozen nodes, going through a remote desktop to a GUI becomes intolerable in a hurry. This post shares my recipe for getting the LOM ports on the network and accessible, using only the command line.

3Dec2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Binding Apple’s Open Directory from the Command Line

Here is a trick I use a couple of times a month to get finicky compute nodes in a Apple compute clusters to correctly bind to their LDAP / Open Directory master. This started working as of OS X 10.4, and to my knowledge it still works as of OS X 10.6.1.
Bioteam uses a [...]

29Oct2009 | cdwan | 0 comments | Continued
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Apple OS X 10.5 launchd scripts for Grid Engine

William Van Etten has produced new scripts for the Apple OS X “Launchd” framework used by Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” systems. Moving forward it seems that Apple eventually intends to phase out the SystemStarter methods for starting/stopping daemons and services in favor of the newer launchd mechanisms.
A Wiki entry over at http://gridengine.info explains [...]

4Mar2008 | blogadmin | 2 comments | Continued
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Workgroup Server for Bioinformatics

A demonstration of a shared iNquiry server on a single 8 core system as an alternative to clustering.

27Jul2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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Workgroup server for Next-Gen Sequencing

Bill Van Etten spoke at the ISMB 2007 meeting about next-generation sequencing and the use of a single 8 core system plus RAID array as an alternative to a cluster.

27Jul2007 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued
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2004: Mac OS X Clustering for Informatics

Exploring the building, administration and use of clusters for the performance of scientific research.

1Dec2004 | blogadmin | 0 comments | Continued