46 search results

• User Management: How do I authenticate against Kerberos?
  
  Answer: How do I authenticate against Kerberos? How do I authenticate agains Kerberos? For Red Hat based system such as RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux: Rather than modifying files ...
  
  
• Workload Management: How do I integrate Univa Grid Engine with Bright Cluster Manager?
  
  Answer: How do I integrate Univa Grid Engine with Bright Cluster Manager?   For updated versions of Bright Cluster Manager version 7 and beyond, UGE is integrated with ...
  
  
• Configuring: How do I add a login node?
  
  Answer:   How do I add a login node?   Table of contents   Why have a login node?What do we need to consider for login nodes?1. Make a login image ...
  
  
• Workload Management: How do I integrate externally executed UGE/SGE server with Bright Cluster Manager 6.0?
  
  Answer: Mount the $SGE_ROOT directory from your external server that is to be managed by the Bright Cluster Manager (BCM) head node. Make sure that q* ...
  
  
• Initialize And Finalize Scripts: How do I handle network interfaces swapping names?
  
  Answer: How do I handle network interfaces swapping names? eth0 keeps changing randomly on boot to eth1 and vice versa. There are two ways to handle this ...
  
  
• Software Management: Can I use Lustre on the Intel Xeon Phi?
  
  Answer: Can I use Lustre on the Intel Xeon  Phi?   Yes. You will need to update the Bright Cluster Manager 7.0 intel-mic-*-<distro> packages to the latest version ...
  
  
• Workload Management: Why is my workload manager configuration changed by Bright?
  
  Answer: Why is my workload manager configuration changed by Bright?   Or perhaps:   How do I make configuration changes to the workload manager (WLM) permanent?   If the configuration changes of ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How do I integrate GPFS 3.x with Bright?
  
  Answer: How do I integrate GPFS with Bright?   GPFS can be integrated with Bright in two ways. Either by mounting a GPFS filesystem on an existing Bright ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform?   Assuming that you have installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.6.   XCP can be managed via the CLI or ...
  
  
• Configuring: How do I update behind a proxy?
  
  Answer: How do I update Bright if it is connected to the network behind a web proxy server?   If you are sitting behind a network proxy server ...
  
  
• Software Management: How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository?
  
  Answer: How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository? or How do I update my cluster from a new Bright ISO that I just downloaded?   Outline If ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How can I use the Intel VTune XE with Bright?
  
  Answer: Introduction   Intel's VTune Amplifier is a commercial application for performance analysis on 32 and 64-bit x86 based machines, and has both GUI and command-line interfaces. Basic features ...
  
  
• User Management: How do I integrate Bright with AD Using SSSD 's LDAP provider and Simple BIND?
  
  Answer: How do I integrate a Bright cluster into an Active Directory domain with SSSD 's LDAP provider?   (The method in "How do I authenticate against Active ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How can I login to cmgui with a one-time password?
  
  Answer: How can I authenticate to cmgui with a one-time password?   Introduction:   One time password (OTP) authentication overcomes replay attacks. It allows an administrator to login to a ...
  
  
• User Management: How can I migrate system users to LDAP?
  
  Answer: How can I migrate users and groups from /etc/passwd and /etc/group to Bright's LDAP?   The following steps should be done on the head node.   1. Install the ...
  
  
• Configuring: How do I make hostname -f return the FQDN for a dynamic IP address (on
  
  Answer: How do I make hostname -f return the FQDN for a dynamic IP address (on the non-bootable network interface)? This comes in useful for some SGE  ...
  
  
• Workload Management: Stale files from MPI jobs filled /dev/shm, what now?
  
  Answer: Stale files from MPI jobs filled /dev/shm, what now?Sometimes when compute nodes stay up for long periods of time, /dev/shm gets filled with stale files. ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Virtual Box?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright on Virtual Box?   Prerequisite: In order to use PXE booting, the VirtualBox Extension Pack should be installed.   Create a Virtual Machine (VM) for ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012R2)?
  
  Answer: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012R2)?   This article walks you through an install of Bright under Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I set up Cluster as a Service (CaaS) on Bright OpenStack 7.1?
  
  Answer: Cluster as a Service on Bright OpenStack 7.1 [The following notes explain setting up a clusters as a service in Bright Cluster Manager. This means that ...
  
  
• Configuring: What is cm-register-node, and how can I use it?
  
  Answer: What is cm-register-node, and how can I use it? (was: How can I add an SGI UV node to an existing Bright Cluster?) Written in catechismic ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I configure Bright OpenStack 7.2 with Active Directory authentication?
  
  Answer: Bright OpenStack 7.2 with AD authentication   This Knowledge base article describes the steps needed to successfully configure Bright OpenStack 7.2 to use the Active Directory/LDAP backend.   It ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright Cluster Manager on an SGI ICE X/XA system?
  
  Answer: Installing Bright on an SGI ICE X/XA system involves first installing the "Admin" node using a Bright Cluster Manager ISO. The ISO could be burned to a ...
  
  
• Security: How do I disable USB?
  
  Answer: How do I disable USB?   Short answer: Two options: 1. BIOS configuration (with or without password protection) 2. kernel configuration (with or without password protection)   Detail answer:   BIOS configuration   Several BIOS ...
  
  
• OpenStack: OpenStack Neutron Mellanox ML2 Driver Configuration in Bright
  
  Answer: Abstract This article describes how to use the Mellanox Neutron ...
  
  
• Workload Management: How do I add a submit host to GE?
  
  Answer: How do I add a submit host to GE (Grid Engine)? Edit /cm/local/apps/cmd/etc/cmd.conf and add the following advanced configuration parameter: # vim /cm/local/apps/cmd/etc/cmd.conf [...] AdvancedConfig = { "AdditionalSubmitHosts=<hostname>" } restart ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare Workstation?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare Workstation? You can follow this guide:   Create a virtual machine for the head node   1. Switch to “Home” tab and click ...
  
  
• Containers: How do I expose a Kubernetes service to an external network in Bright 8.1?
  
  Answer: There are many ways of exposing a Kubernetes service to an external network.   This article describes two methods of exposing Kubernetes to an external network. The methods ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.1?
  
  Answer:   How do I upgrade from Bright 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3/8.0 to Bright 8.1?   The procedure below can be used to upgrade a Bright 6.0 or 6.1 or 7.0 or ...
  
  
• High Availability: How do I set up high-availability NFS with Bright?
  
  Answer: How do I set up high-availability NFS with Bright?   Setting up an HA NFS storage   This article describes how to setup a high availability NFS storage service ...
  
  
• Node Provisioning: How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node with Bright?
  
  Answer: How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node, using Bright?   This guide walks through configuring Bright Cluster Manager 7.1/RHEL7 to deploy Windows Server ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How do I install Mesos on a Bright Cluster?
  
  Answer: The installation of Mesos with the Marathon and Chronos frameworks on a Bright Cluster is described in this article.   Upstream documentation for these applications can be ...
  
  
• High Availability: How do I configure PBSPro HA with DAS shared storage?
  
  Answer: How do I configure PBSPro High Availability with DAS shared storage?   Bright Cluster Manager does not support HA (High Availability) for PBSPro when the shared storage ...
  
  
• Cloudbursting: How can cluster extension to an existing VPC be done (7.3)?
  
  Answer: This article describes how to configure cm-cluster-extension to an already existing VPC (and vpc subnets). Start cm-cluster-extension CLI tool, select "Add cloud provider" menu entry. Follow on-screen ...
  
  
• Cloudbursting: How to configure Cluster Extension to AWS without OpenVPN (7.3+)
  
  Answer: This article describes how to configure Cluster Extension cloudbursting to AWS on a Bright 7.3 cluster without relying on OpenVPN for communication between the headnode ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How do I integrate GPFS 4.x with Bright?
  
  Answer: How do I integrate GPFS with Bright?   GPFS can be integrated with Bright in two ways. Either by mounting a GPFS filesystem on an existing Bright ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How can I build Lustre RPMs for the Mellanox OFED?
  
  Answer: You will need to  download the Lustre source RPM from: https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.9.0/el7/client/ Replace 2.9.0 with the desired version The SRPM can be installed  on a node that is running ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How can SR-IOV IB passthrough be set up for virtual machines with OpenStack Nova?
  
  Answer:     How can SR-IOV IB passthrough be set up for virtual machines with OpenStack Nova?Allowing OpenStackNetworking and OpenStackCompute to create SR-IOV ports has been possible since ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.0 ?
  
  Answer:   How do I upgrade from Bright 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 to Bright 8.0?   The procedure below can be used to upgrade a Bright 6.0 or 6.1 or 7.0 or ...
  
  
• Cluster Monitoring: How to collect metrics from older GPUs using NVML
  
  Answer: The Bright 8.0 metrics system uses DCGM to collect metrics from GPUs. But DCGM doesn't support older GPUs. Not to worry, you can still get the ...
  
  
• High Availability: How to Install Lustre with ZFS and HA for OSS and MDS Nodes
  
  Answer: Prerequisites: 2 OSS nodes connected via SAS over multiple paths to their own JBOD shared storage (minimum eight drives) 2 MDS nodes connected via SAS over multiple ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How do I enable OHPC with Bright?
  
  Answer:   "OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required to deploy and manage High Performance ...
  
  
• Cluster Monitoring: How do I configure Grafana for Bright 8.1
  
  Answer: Setup Grafana with Bright 8.1 With this KB article we are going to setup Grafana on a Bright cluster, in order to consume metrics from cmdaemon. Note: ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I integrate Ironic with Bright OpenStack 8.2?
  
  Answer:   NOTE:  The guidance given in the following text is based on an investigation by Bright engineers. The end result is an Ironic integration that proved to ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.2?
  
  Answer: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.2?   Upgrades to Bright 8.2 are now supported for the following Linux distributions and Bright versions.   Supported Linux distributions and Bright ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How to backup and restore OpenStack instances between Bright 8.x upgrades?
  
  Answer: How to backup and restore OpenStack instances between Bright 8.x upgrades? Introduction: One of the prerequisites for upgrading Bright clusters (e.g. from version 8.1 to 8.2) is ...