VL-e PoC R2 Distribution
Installation and use of the PoC

Jan Just Keijser

VL-e PoC R2 Induction Event, April 19th, 2007

Some things never change:

Where do I get the VL-e PoC Distribution?

http://poc.vl-e.nl/distribution

Other things, however, do...

Package updates:

Latest stable versions

New packages: nimrod/O, vlet/vbrowser, weka

Dropped packages: triana, medline

New directory structure:

each application in its own directory

/opt/vl-e/{gt_4.0.4,srb_3.4.2,vlet_0.6}

support for multiple versions of the same package

Modules: New method for using packages:

mandatory! R1-jobs will need to be modified

based on modules (http://modules.sf.net)

also used on NCF cluster, DAS3

'contrib track': Contributing packages

What is it?

Besides the officially endorsed VL-e software in the Proof-of-Concept distribution, there is a special ‘contributions’ section for software that is

provided by a contributor outside VLeIT or the P4 team,

provided ‘as is’ without guarantees,

certified only to pass some basic installation tests and

not supported by the P4 team, but exclusively by the original contributor.

Current contributions:

mono (C#) (not contrib-track-certified!)

DeVIDE is in progress

see http://poc.vl-e.nl/distribution/contrib/ for details

The VL-e PoC R2 Distribution

VL-e PoC R2 Contents:

gLite 3.0

Sun Java J2SDK 1.4.2_13 & JDK 1.5.0_11

Plus

fsl 3.3.7	gat 1.8.2	globus-toolkit 4.0.4

graphviz 2.12	ibis 1.4	itk 2.8.1

javagat 1.6	kepler-1.0.0beta2	lam 7.1.2

lucene 1.4.3 & 2.0.0	MatlabMPI 1.2	Mesa3D 6.4.2

modules 3.2.3	mpitb 2.1.73	mricro 1.3.9

nimrod/G 3.2	nimrod/O 2.8	octave 2.1.73

ogsadai-wsrf 2.2	paraview 2.4.4	swi-prolog 5.6.27

R 2.4.0	Rmpi-0.5	sesame-client 1.2.6

SRB client 3.4.2	taverna 1.3.1	vlet/vbrowser 0.6

vtk 4.4.2 & 5.0.2	weka 3.4.9

Contributed packages

mono (C#) 1.2.3

see http://poc.vl-e.nl/distribution/R2contents.html for full list

The VL-e PoC R2 Distribution

Distribution formats:

Network-based installation

http access

http proxy access

DVD-based installation: the PoC DVD

Pre-installed VMware image (present on PoC DVD)

CentOS 3.8 with GNOME GUI

gLite 3.0 UI

VL-e PoC R2 UI packages

Works with free VMware Player on both Linux and Windows

The VL-e PoC R2 Distribution

Prerequisites when installing the PoC:

RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 – compatible distro:

RHEL 3

Centos 3.8

Scientific Linux 3.08

RHEL4 32bit support is imminent

64bit support not

Sun Java2 SDK 1.4.2 and JDK 1.5 are now included in the PoC distribution; no need to download them separately

The VL-e PoC R2 Distribution

Installing the VMware images:

PC running Windows or Linux with

512 MB RAM (vm is configured with 256 MB)

At least 5 GB hard disk space free

Screen resolution 1024x768

Download free VMware Player from

http://www.vmware.com/download/player

Unpack the vle-poc-r2-build001.zip file into an empty directory

That’s all folks!

The VL-e PoC R2 VMware Images

User=pocahontas/VL-eRulez! User=root/rhel3=centos3

Questions?

If Microsoft is

the answer,

then it must have been

a Silly Question

Jan Just Keijser

2007-04-18T13:26:42