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- General: Is upgrading from version 5.2 to 6.0 possible by changing the download repositories? Answer: No. You can't upgrade directly from 5.2 to 6.0 because the APIs and CMDaemon database have changed significantly. Trying to do this would be pretty complicated ...
- General: What do the version numbers mean? Answer: A major Bright Cluster Manager release has a major number associated with it. For example: 5 (same as 5.0), or 6 (same as 6.0). A minor ...
- Node Provisioning: How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? Answer: How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? (For update via Linux, see http://kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=11&id=105 ) The problem:I have to perform some maintenance on the nodes ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Mahout to my Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Mahout to my Hadoop instance? Apache Mahout is a suite of machine learning libraries. Depending on the algorithm, Mahout can work ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- OpenStack: How do I install Cloud Foundry on Bright OpenStack? Answer: Cloud Foundry installation on Bright Openstack 1- A working Openstack environment, API access, credentials, and a working networking configuration with metadata access is assumed. Running the following ...
- Power Management: How Do I monitor APM In An HP Apollo 8000? Answer: APM Monitoring Setup for An HP Apollo 8000 rack in Bright 7.x Static Routes: The head node can access the APMs through an intermediate host which has ...
- Configuring: How do I install BeeGFS? Answer: How do I install BeeGFS? Integrating BeeGFS with Bright is described here. We use the following configuration: Hosts: beegfs-mgmt: Bright 7.1/RHEL7 Head Node beegfs-mds: RHEL7 Server beegfs-ss01: RHEL7 Server beegfs-ss02: RHEL7 Server beegfs-client001: ...
- Containers: Does Bright's Kubernetes installation stick to open cloud standards? Answer: Or:How can I verify that Bright's Kubernetes deployment passes the official CNCF conformance tests? The CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) is a vendor neutral foundation that ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hortonworks Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my hadoop Cloudera CDH 5.7.1 instance (based on Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Workload Management: How do I Install MOAB 9.x on top of Bright? Answer: How do I install MOAB in Bright? (Tested on Bright 7.3 with torque 6.0.1) 1. Download MOAB sources from Adaptive website and extract it on the head ...
- NVIDIA DGX: How do I add NVIDIA DGX nodes to a Bright cluster using the official Ubuntu Answer: How do I add NVIDIA DGX nodes to a Bright cluster using the official Ubuntu DGX software stack? Bright provides a software image for the official ...
- 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 ...
- 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: ...
- Cloudbursting: How can I create an RDMA-ready cloud instance and software image? Answer: How to create an RDMA ready cloud instances and software image Prepare The Azure RDMA Cloud instances: 1. Create an availability set in Azure Portal Click on “All ...
- 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 ...
- Software Management: How can I install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Forwarder into Bright 8.2? Answer: How can I install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Forwarder on Bright 8.2? By following the procedure outlined here: Installing Splunk-Forwarder and building a new software image: The method ...
- 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 ...
- Node Provisioning: How can I flash update all my nodes (from Linux)? Answer: How can I flash update all my nodes (from Linux)? (For update via DOS, see http://kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=20&id=94 ) Some manufacturers like Dell provide a flash BIOS upgrade utility ...
- 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 ...
- 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: How can I submit TORQUE or SLURM Jobs from my Linux Desktops Answer: Bright provides an AdvancedConfig which allows additional submit hosts. This is configured in the "/cm/local/apps/cmd/etc/cmd.conf" as follows. AdvancedConfig = {"AdditionalSubmitHosts=node002,login01,user-desktop1,user-desktop2"} It is important to note that ...
- Installing BCM: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008/R2)? Answer: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008/R2)? This article walks you through an install of Bright under Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Containers: How can I add Kubernetes to an air-gapped Bright Cluster? Answer: Kubernetes is most easily installed on a cluster that is able to access the internet. Some clusters don’t have Internet access, but it is still ...
- Cluster Monitoring: How can I monitor a CoolIT rack with Bright? Answer: How can I monitor a CoolIT rack with Bright? CoolIT is a vendor of water-cooled racks that have sensors to monitor the rack. CoolIT racks can ...
- Third Party Software: How do I install the AMD FirePro GPU Driver on Bright? Answer: How do I install the AMD FirePro GPU Driver on Bright? The AMD FirePro GPU driver can be installed, and the OpenCL feature checked, on Bright ...
- Third Party Software: How do I use ScaleMP on Bright? Answer: How can I run ScaleMP on Bright? This guide describes how to use ScaleMP’s vSMP for Cloud product to create virtual SMP nodes in a cluster. Installing ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hortonworks HDP 2.3.0 Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- Development: How can I install the latest Python in Bright? Answer: RedHat, SUSE, and similar Linux-based OS distributors provide versions of Python that lag behind the latest upstream. This is normally a good thing, since the ...
- 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 ...
- Big Data: How can I import data from MySQL to Hadoop with Apache Sqoop? Answer: How can I import data from MySQL to Hadoop with Apache Sqoop? This is best explained with an example. Apache Sqoop is a data transfer tool used ...
- User Management: How can PowerBroker be used with Bright? Answer: How can PowerBroker be used with Bright? PowerBroker allows AD authentication services to work with Linux. It can be made to work with Bright. The following ...
- Workload Management: How to install Gold Allocation Manager on top of Bright Cluster Answer: How to install Gold Allocation Manager on top of Bright Cluster Gold Allocation Manager is an HPC resource accounting tool. It is open source, and released ...
- Third Party Software: My program needs Python 3 in order to run. How do I install it? Answer: Running yum search cm-python3 (the prefix "cm-" is important) should turn up the Bright Cluster Manager Python 3 package for more recent Bright Cluster Manager software. A ...
- General: How do I create a RHEL or Bright repository for my organization? Answer: In ceratin cases, the Bright cluster is not able to access the internet directly or having a local repository withing the companies intranet is beneficial ...
- Installing BCM: How do I run Intel Cluster Checker on a Bright cluster? Answer: This document assumes that Intel Cluster Checker 2019 is used. If a different version of Cluster Checker is used, instructions are probably similar but may ...
- User Management: How do I integrate ldap-passwd-webui with Bright? Answer: What is ldap-passwd-webui? A simple tool, written entirely in Python. The original tool can be found at https://github.com/jirutka/ldap-passwd-webuiIt allows the end user to change their password ...
- General: How do I install OrangeFS? Answer: These instructions are tested on Bright 7.3 Centos7u3 for the head node and the compute nodes. The head node is the storage server. Install the dependencies. [root@mg-73-centos73-ofs ...
- OpenStack: How to manually add cluster on demand for OpenStack images Answer: Introduction The recommended way to add images to a Cluster On Demand cluster, for deployment within OpenStack, is described in the setup article http://kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&id=328. However, the standard ...
- Cluster Management: Why does cmgui only work with Firefox upto version 56.x.x? Answer: For Bright 7.3 and earlier versions, cmgui will not work with Firefox versions higher than 56.x.x -- why? Starting from Firefox 57, only extensions developed using ...