RMI User Interface machine cluster

These machines are first of all UI machines for the Grid. They are also utilized as a development environment. The UI machines are equipped with a common regularly archived AFS home, and are completely equivalent.

Machines: ui1.kfki.hu, ui2.kfki.hu.

Operating system: Scientific Linux by CERN (SLC).

Installed software packages

First of all, the AFS softwares of the WignerAFS directory may all be used. There are also numerous rpm packages installed, on top of the default SLC setup.

Extra installed rpm packages

• gsl, gsl-devel, fftw, fftw-devel, fftw3, fftw3-devel
• gpg
• strace, gnuplot, gcc-f77, blas, lapack
• gcc-c++, libstdc++, libstdc++-devel, compat-gcc-32-c++, gcc4-c++, compat-libstdc++-33
• gv, ghostscript, ghostscript-fonts, VFlib2, acroread
• flex
• automake, libtool
• bison
• termcap, libtermcap, libtermcap-devel, ncurses, ncurses-devel, readline, readline-devel
• perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig
• glib, glib-devel, glib2, glib2-devel
• libjpeg, libjpeg-devel, freetype, freetype-devel, fontconfig, fontconfig-devel, libpng, libpng-devel, imlib2, imlib2-devel, netpbm, netpbm-devel, netpbm-progs, ImageMagick, libXft-devel, libXpm, libXpm-devel, libXext, libXext-devel
• zlib, zlib-devel
• xorg-x11, xorg-x11-devel, xorg-x11-libs, xorg-x11-font-utils, xorg-x11-init
• subversion
• rpmbuild
• screen
• kdbg
• openmpi, openmpi-devel
• gsi-openssh, gsi-openssh-clients

It is possible to search among the installed packages, by the following command.

> yum  list  installed  |  grep  your_package

The following command prints the package matches to a certain pattern in the full package data base.

> yum  search  pattern

It is also possible to determine which package provides a given file.

> yum  whatprovides  given_file

Note: There exists an archived subversion repository at the AFS location /afs/kfki.hu/linux/var/lib/repos. E.g.:

> svn  checkout  svn+ssh://user_name@one_of_the_uis.kfki.hu/afs/kfki.hu/linux/var/lib/repos/project_name

-- AndrasLaszlo - 10 Jul 2009