Lesson 12

Date: 4/16/2014
High Performance Computing (part I)
Linux for Engineering and IT applications


VM deployment for MPI cluster


  • Download clmaster and clnode01 VMs: 
    wget http://engshare.rutgers.edu/KVM/clmaster.tgz
wget http://engshare.rutgers.edu/KVM/clnode.tgz

  • Untar the archives and deploy the VMs: 
    tar -zxvf clmaster.tgz
cp clmaster.img /home/hostadm/KVM
cp clmaster.xml /etc/libvirt/qemu
virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/clmaster.xml
tar -zxvf clnode.tgz 
cp clnode01.img /home/hostadm/KVM
cp clnode01.xml /etc/libvirt/qemu
virsh define /etc/libvirt/qemu/clnode01.xml
  • start clmaster VM: 
    virsh start clmaster
  • Login to clmaster and create a new LDAP user account, mpiuser: 
    virsh console clmaster
sudo -s
ldapadduser mpiuser ldapusers
ldapsetpasswd mpiuser




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