------------------DOCUMENTS------------------

Hardware:
- pfjl0_details_specs_racks.mail
- VS_BladeRack_Manual_RevI
- ProCurve_Switch_2800_Series.pdf
- ARCvault 24 User Guide

SOFTWARE
- Web-page: http://oceans.deas.harvard.edu/haley/HideyHole/cluster_software.html
- rocks-usersguide-4.2.1
- pjh3_notes_conf_call_final.mail


------  CLUSTER SET-UP TODO: SOFTWARE TO INSTALL -------

- Cross mounting of disk: set up NIS on master server with 
 NFS such that linux/windows desktops can see cluster disks.
  (Samba/CIFS for windows)
     - partitioning of disks in 1U so that one/some of them is/are used for
       backup.

- software download from MIT for install on large cluster: Need to check with IS&T
  or simply download from Web, install on front-end and use rocks to copy.
  Someone needs to do a list of free/4pay software needed from MIT list

- PVM: Check to see version included in Rocks works with schedulers

-- Parastation, PBS, Score: to be installed
  Need to install parastation on top of Rocks (also Score)

- parallel file systems: at least on main storage array (NFS and PVFS2).

- OS can be changed mid-stream  (user authentication)

---OS recommended by 2.006 student, which we should check
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_GNU/Linux
http://www.debian.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Linux
http://www.ubuntu.com/



DONE:


- Software development kits: wait until we have better idea of needs.
  and have tried a few (free, demo licenses)

- Firewalls (rocks default)

- backup data: Oleg to contact MIT IS&T 
     - Need to set-up rolling back-ups (search Pat's page
       http://oceans.deas.harvard.edu/haley/HideyHole/cluster_software.html

     - ask someone how to continue to copy files across tapes (Al Conte)?
       (amanda - see cluster_action_list.txt)

- Surge protector: done, but we need to check it.

- internal connect and configuration of switches for more than 1G connect 
  (see Conway's emails).  Switch-to-switch interconnects set-up, need testing.

- We have Rocks (contains RHEL4). Contains: 

  CentOS 4 update 5 (replace the OS Roll with the complete media set
           from any Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 compatible distribution, 
           including the commercial version).

  Schedulers: CONDOR (High throughput computing tools), grid Globus 4.0.4 (GT4)  
             SGE Sun Grid Engine job queueing system 
 
   area51 System security related services and utilites  
 
   bio Bioinformatics utilities     

   ganglia Cluster monitoring system from UCB   
 
   java Sun Java SDK and JVM  
 
   pvfs2 PVFS2 File System   


  MPI installed