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Loading the Distribution Files on a Workstation

Software Distribution

The Sun Grid Engine 6.2 software is distributed on CD-ROM and through electronic download. For information on how to access CD-ROMs, ask your system administrator or refer to your local system documentation. The CD-ROM distribution contains a directory named Sun_Grid_Engine_6_2. The product distribution is in this directory, in both tar.gz format and the pkgadd format. The pkgadd format is provided for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). For all supported operating systems, the software is distributed in tar.gz format.

How to Load the Distribution Files on a Workstation

Before You Begin

Ensure that the file systems and directories that are to contain the Grid Engine software distribution and the spool and configuration files are set up properly by setting the access permissions as defined in File Access Permissions.

Steps

1. Provide access to the distribution media.
   If you downloaded the software, rather than getting it on CD-ROM, just unzip the files into a directory. This directory must be located on a file system that has at least 350 MBytes free space.
   
   
2. Log in to a system.
   Log in preferably on a system that has a direct connection to a file server.
   
   
3. Create the installation directory.
   Create an installation directory as described in $SGE_ROOT Installation Directory.

   # mkdir /opt/sge6-2
   

   In these instructions, the installation directory is abbreviated as sge-root.
   
   

4. Install the binaries for all binary architectures that are to be used by any of your master, execution, and submit hosts in your Grid Engine system cluster.
   You can use either the pkgadd method or the tar method.

pkgadd Method

The pkgadd format is provided for the Solaris Operating System. To facilitate remote installation, the pkgadd directories are also provided in zip files.

You can install the following packages:

As you type the following commands, you must be prepared to respond to script questions about your base directory, sge-root, and the administrative user. The script requests the choices that you made during the planning steps of this installation. See Decisions That You Must Make for further details.

At the command prompt, type the following commands, responding to the script questions.

# cd cdrom_mount_point/Sun_Grid_Engine_6_2
# pkgadd -d ./Common/Packages SUNWsgeec

Depending on the Solaris binary that you need, type one of the following commands:

# pkgadd -d ./Solaris_sparc/Packages SUNWsgee 
# pkgadd -d ./Solaris_sparc/Packages SUNWsgeex 
# pkgadd -d ./Solaris_x86/Packages SUNWsgeei 
# pkgadd -d ./Solaris_x64/Packages SUNWsgeeax 

tar Method

For all supported operating systems, the software is distributed in tar.gz format.

The following table contains files that you need to install, regardless of platform.

The tar files that contain platform-specific binaries use the naming convention of sge-6_2-bin-architecture.tar.gz.

The following table lists the platform-specific binaries. Install the file for each platform that you need to support. Note that each platform has its own directory under Sun_Grid_Engine_6_2.

Type the following commands at the command prompt. In the example, <basedir> is the abbreviation for the full directory, cdrom-mount-point/Sun_Grid_Engine_6_2.

% su 
# cd <sge-root>
# gzip -dc <basedir>/Common/tar/sge-6_2-common.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
# gzip -dc <basedir>/Solaris_sparc/tar/sge-6_2-bin-solsparc32.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
# gzip -dc <basedir>/Solaris_sparc/tar/sge-6_2-bin-solsparc64.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
# SGE_ROOT=<sge-root>; export SGE_ROOT
# util/setfileperm.sh $SGE_ROOT

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