OSCAR is a opensource Beowulf Toolkit that is developed by some IBMers. it provides a nice GUI interface and i find that it is quite easy to use. A really neat utility. For complete documentation, go to http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/
OSCAR installation procedure
- Install full Redhat to master node
- unpack OSCAR into /root
- configure “eth” to the correct IP address
- copy distribution RPMs to /tftpboot/rpm
- Issue commands
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$ cd /root/oscar-1.2 $ ./install_cluster
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- Issue command
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$ ./oscar_wizard
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- Click “Step 1”
- unselect automatic reboot
- affirm details in the files for configuration e.g disk partitions & rpm list
- Note “Image Name” field
- Click “Build Image”
- Might have to edit default RPM list for the building of image to go through
- Click “Step 2”
- Enter “Image Name”
- Enter “Domain Name”
- Enter “Number of Host” *This is the number of clients to create
- Enter “Starting Number”
- Enter “Starting IP”
- Enter “Subnet Mask”
- Enter “Default Gateway”
- Click “Add Clients”
- Click “Setup Networking”
- Click “Setup Network Boot”
- Click “Start Collecting”
- Select MAC address & click “Assign Mac to node” selecting the node in turn
- Click “Stop Collecting”
- Click “Setup Network install”
- Click “Setup DHCP”
- Ensure clients are on network boot
- Boot Cluster in sequence of node number
- After installation, reboot machines & reset the system to boot first from HDD. Reboot.
- Ping all clients
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$ scripts/ping_clients
- All clients should respond
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- Click “Complete Cluster Setup”
- Click “Test cluster setup”
- enter a non-root user name/pw
- open new terminal & login as user
- run OSCAR_test/test_cluster
- If all complete without error, then installation is complete!!