Thursday 19 July 2007 at 8:32 pm
Here's my quick notes on getting
SRSS 4, Beta Update 2 (the latest) running on Centos 4.4.
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Tuesday 17 July 2007 at 08:16 am
Recently
Professor Diana Franklin was awarded
an NSF grant to build a small high performance computing cluster here on campus. As the "friendly neighborhood system administrator" I volunteered to help build and run it. We chose
UCSD's Rocks Linux based clustering software for it. Rocks comes"out of the box" with most thing installed and configured correctly, even complicated things like
Ganglia, a cluster monitor, or
Sun Grid Engine, a job scheduler. Rocks makes it easy. Having said that, however, don't tinker with Rocks components unless you know what you are doing...
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Tuesday 10 July 2007 at 09:39 am
Currently I support thousands of users on hundreds of machines in a mixed Unix and Windows environment. The legacy environment has 2 separate systems to administer user accounts. On Unix, we still (!?!) use plain old NIS. For Windows, we use Windows Server 2003 R2 with Active Directory (AD). AD can theoretically support Unix authentication, and promises to offer a "one stop shop" for integrated account management. Does it really work? Read more to find out...
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