HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.2

Table 2-1 HP XC Software Stack (continued)
DescriptionSoftware Product Name
Standard LSF is the industry standard Platform Computing LSF product
used for workload management across clusters of compute resources. It
features comprehensive workload management policies in addition to
simple first-come, first-serve scheduling (fairshare, preemption, backfill,
advance reservation, service-level agreement, and so on). Standard LSF
is suited for jobs that do not have complex parallel computational needs
and is ideal for processing large volumes of serial, single-process jobs.
For more information about where to obtain Platform LSF documentation,
see “Supplementary Software Products” (page 21).
Standard LSF
SuperMon is a highly scalable, high-speed cluster monitoring system.
SuperMon provides all required node statistics to the Nagios subsystem.
System statistics are tiered, aggregated, and stored in the configuration
and management database.
SuperMon
The syslog-ng logging tool improves upon traditional syslog
functionality. It supplies more flexibility to handle logs, adds better filters,
and contains a better forwarding mechanism.
syslog-ng
The SystemImager tool synchronizes the configuration of nodes across
the system using image propagation. This facilitates ease of installation
of the initial software and ease of upgrading software and configuration
files.
SystemImager
See “Related Software Products and Additional Publications” (page 22) for links and pointers
to more information about the open source and third-party software components that are
integrated into the HP XC core technology.
2.1.3 Kickstart Installation File
The ks.cfg Kickstart installation file is provided on the HP XC System Software DVD. Default
values provided by HP reduce the number of answers you have to provide during the installation
session. The Kickstart file differs depending on the cluster platform architecture, and the
appropriate version of the file is included on the distribution media.
Table 2-2 lists the default values defined in the Kickstart file, regardless of the cluster platform.
Table 2-2 Default Values in the ks.cfg File
Default ValueItem
United States (U.S.)Keyboard type
Generic three button mouse emulationMouse
U.S. EnglishLanguage used by the installation process
U.S. EnglishLanguage installed on the system
GNOMEDesktop manager
You can modify these values after the installation process is complete by using standard Linux
system administration procedures.
2.1.4 Default File System Layout and Disk Partition Sizes
Table 2-3 lists the default file system layout and disk partition sizes that are applied to the
installation disk on the head node. Because the installation disk size can vary, partition sizes are
calculated as a percentage of total disk size. However, using a fixed percentage of the total disk
size to calculate the size of each disk partition can result in needlessly large partition sizes when
the installation disk is larger than 36 GB. Thus, limits have been set on partition sizes to leave
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