ISD : Systems & Networking : Procedures : Eric HPC

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Contents
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1.0 Introduction
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This document details the UMIST High Performance Computing Service which runs on Eric.

2.0 Hardware, Software, Network and other Details
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  • Eric is a Sun E6500
  • Running Solaris 2.7
  • 28 (400Mhz) Processors
  • 120Gb Disk Space
  • 30Gb Memory

2.1 Software (see Resources)
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  • Sun Solaris 2.7 (106541-14)

2.2 Network and other Details
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  Eric
DNS Name eric.umist.ac.uk
IP Number 130.88.97.1
Netmask 255.255.255.0
MAC Address 08:00:20:AD:F1:E0
Network Interface Used hme1
Location C7, Main Building

3.0 File Systems
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Eric uses disksuite to create metadevices.

Device Filesystem Size Mounted On
d0 /dev/md/dsk/d0 18Gb /
d3 /dev/md/dsk/d3 18Gb swap
d6 /dev/md/dsk/d6 18Gb /var
d9 /dev/md/dsk/d9 18Gb /work
d12 /dev/md/dsk/d12 32Gb /export/civil
d13 /dev/md/dsk/d13 32Gb /export/mecheng
d14 /dev/md/dsk/d14 32Gb /export/chem
d15 /dev/md/dsk/d15 32Gb /export/umist
d16 /dev/md/dsk/d16 32Gb /export/chem1
d17 /dev/md/dsk/d17 32Gb /export/mecheng1
d18 /dev/md/dsk/d18 32Gb /export/civil1
d19 /dev/md/dsk/d19 32Gb /export/umistmsc
d20 /dev/md/dsk/d20 32Gb /software
d30 /dev/md/dsk/d30 32Gb /scratch
 

Disk Mirrors

Disk Set Mount Point Disk

Disk Mirrored by

d0 /   d1 d2
d1   c0t0d0s0    
d2   c2t0d0s0    
d3 swap   d4 d5
d4   c0t0d0s1    
d5   c0t0d0s1    
d6 /var   d7 d8
d7   c0t0d0s3    
d8   c2t0d0s3    
d9 /work   d10 d11
d10   c0t0d0s7    
d11   c2t0d0s7    

Disk Stripe/Concatenation

Disk Set Mount Point Disk

Disk Concatenation

d12 /export/civil   c0t13d0s6 c2t13d0s6
d13 /export/mecheng   c0t12d0s6 c2t12d0s6
d14 /export/chem   c0t11d0s6 c2t11d0s6
d15 /export/umist   c0t10d0s6 c2t10d0s6
d16 /export/chem1   c0t9d0s6 c2t9d0s6
d17 /export/mecheng1   c0t5d0s6 c2t5d0s6
d18 /export/civil1   c0t8d0s6 c2t8d0s6
d19 /export/umistmsc   c0t4d0s6 c2t4d0s6
d20 /software   c0t1d0s6 c2t1d0s0
d30 /scratch   c0t2d0s0 c2t2d0s0

4.0 Installation Notes

  • Sun Installed OS, HPC software, and LSF.

5.0 Files, Scripts and Cronjobs

5.1 Files

  • TEST

5.2 Scripts

  • TEST

5.3 Cronjobs

  • TEST

6.0 NIS+

  • Eric uses NIS+ (Be afraid)
  • Temporary users can be added to the passwd file (Pete Lambert does this for certain courses)

6.1 Users in NIS+

7.0 Administrative Tasks

8.0 Backing Up
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  • Everthing is backed up by Arcserve.

9.0 Security
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  • TCP Wrappers
  • Machnine is blocked for external access from router. Only the 12 nodes (user etc administered through NIS+) and administrative IP numbers are allowed to connect.

10.0 Resources
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  • SUN (www.sun.com)