xCAT

Platform requirements

Operating systems: RedHat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8, 9, RHAS 2.1, RHAS 3, RHAS 4, RHES 2.1, RHES 3, RHES 4, RHWS 2.1, RHWS 3, RHWS 4, RHAS4U3, RHES4U3, RHWS4U3, ROCKS 4, SL4, SLES8, SLES9, SuSE 8, SuSE 8.1, SuSE 8.2, SuSE 9.0, SuSE 9.1, SuSE 9.2, SuSE 9.3, SLES8, SLES9, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4, Fedora Core 5, CentOS 3, CentOS 3.6, CentOS 4, CentOS 4.3

Hardware: Intel P3, P4, AMD Opteron, PPC, and IA64 are supported. Other processor types and hardware platforms have also been reported to work.

The xCAT Red Book has many more details on required and nice-to-have equipment and software.

Installation instructions

1. Download the three xCAT files:
   • xcat-dist-core-1.2.0.tgz
   • xcat-dist-ibm-1.2.0.tgz
   • xcat-dist-doc-1.2.0.tgz
   (Note: xcat-dist-oss is not distributed here at alphaWorks. Information on where to acquire this component is available at http://xcat.org.)
2. Unpack these files into /opt/xcat as follows:

   # cd /opt # tar xzvf xcat-dist-core-1.2.0.tgz # tar xzvf xcat-dist-ibm-1.2.0.tgz # tar xzvf xcat-dist-doc-1.2.0.tgz

3. You must also download and install the supporting open-source software. Please see the links at http://xcat.org for further information. Consult the Building a Linux HPC Cluster with xCAT red book for the remainder of the installation and configuration process.

If you would like additional information on xCAT, please download the files below.

• flash howto.pdf
• gpfs howto.pdf
• Warewulf-2.4-HOWTO.pdf
• windows howto.pdf

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