Grid Engine Binary Downloads |
General Instructions for DownloadsYou can download most files by clicking on their corresponding links. In some cases, this will launch a browser's plug-in such as Adobe Acrobat for PDF files, or an archive extractor for ZIP files. If you prefer to download a file rather than viewing it with your browser's plug-in, click on the right mouse button, and select Save Link As for Netscape® or Save Target As for Microsoft® Internet Explorer to specify where the file will be saved on your system.Binaries from this page are available under the terms of a Sun Binary Code License. Grid Engine Binary Download (V53_beta2_TAG) 1. Download common files (necessary for all architectures)
2. Download documentation files (optional)
3. Download platform-specific binary and data files
4. Installation Unpacking the files All files must be unpacked to a directory which is accessible from all machines which use Grid Engine. For execution hosts this directory should be read/write exported for the root user. create SGE_ROOT directory (and export it for NFS access if necessary) % mkdir <your_gridengine_root_direcotry> % cd <your_gridengine_root_direcotry>unpack the "common" files % gzip -dc sge-<version>-common.tar.gz | tar xvf -unpack the binaries for all architectures % gzip -dc sge-<version>-bin-<arch>.tar.gz | tar xvf -It's recommended to add the service sge_commd xxx/tcpto your services database (/etc/services or at your NIS server). You should use an unused number below 1024. If you don't want to add this service, you will be prompted for a port number during installation. Install Grid Engine Run the script "inst_sge" in the $SGE_ROOT directory to install Grid
Engine. The scripts install_qmaster and install_execd can be used as a
shortcut. In Grid Engine mode you just install as described in the next
intended paragraph.
First run % ./install_qmaster on the machine where the Grid
Engine master daemon (sge_qmaster) will run.
On all hosts (including the qmaster machine) on which you want to execute jobs, run the the script %./install_execdThe "Quick Start Guide" in the Grid Engine manual (which is included as a postscript file in the doc/ directory of your distribution) contains more information about installing Grid Engine. |