All Posts Tagged With: "os x"
Grid Engine 6.2 on Mac OS X
Installing Grid Engine 6.x on modern versions of Mac OS X (client and server)
As of early 2010, Grid Engine is effectively not installable out of the box on modern version of Mac OS X. We have seen this recently with server and client versions of OS X 10.5.* as well as the new Snow Leopard [...]
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 | ContinuedBinding 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 [...]
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 [...]
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