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HuaweiNodeNameSerialNumbersMapping
First batch node SN mapping node SN atlas1 2102311GGX10GB000034 atlas2 2102311GGX10GB000035 atlas3 2102311GGX10GB000036 atlas4 2102311...
r4 - 30 Jun 2020 - 15:02 by SvenRenas
ClusterInternalSSH
How to use dsh and password less ssh in between the nodes It's very easy to get password less ssh working in between the nodes, you just need a proper ssh keypair...
r4 - 12 Mar 2020 - 08:43 by HenningFehrmann
GridKaHOWTO
GridKaHOWTO Follow the whole process with the same user and the same browser! If you use Firefox, please ensure to use version ESR version 60 or 68 a...
r33 - 24 Sep 2019 - 07:34 by CarstenAulbert
PlannedWork
Planned downtimes This page summarizes planned/on going work within the Atlas cluster along with a few details. Usually, we will issue condor_off peaceful at lea...
r16 - 24 Aug 2019 - 16:02 by SvenRenas
WebHome
This is the public information on the ATLAS cluster operated by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (also named Albert Einstein Insititute, AEI) si...
r56 - 25 Jul 2019 - 13:13 by CarstenAulbert
NetInstallViaiPXEInstall
Trying to get iPXE as the default method to netinstalls working (based on http://ipxe.org/howto/chainloading and https://doc.rogerwhittaker.org.uk/ipxe installati...
r4 - 11 Jul 2019 - 10:28 by CarstenAulbert
KernelRebuildPbuilder
Rebuilding Debian's kernel (loosely following https://kernel team.pages.debian.net/kernel handbook/ch common tasks.html#s common official) pbuilder environment I...
NEW - 09 Jul 2019 - 06:26 by CarstenAulbert
SpackTest
First steps with spack Please note this all this was tested on a extremely minimally installed server. I.e. just installing something like doxygen can take a very...
r2 - 28 Jun 2019 - 14:09 by CarstenAulbert
CreateHybridUSBImage
Create a hybrid USB Image The goal is to create an image file which can be copied onto a USB stick and booted both via legacy BIOS as well as UEFI. This document ...
r2 - 05 Jun 2019 - 09:16 by CarstenAulbert
SimpleZVolTesting
Simple ZFS ZVol testing creating baseline Create simple test data set in RAM: mkdir p /dev/shm/data for i in $(seq w 30); do dd if=/dev/null base64)" nosalt...
r3 - 01 Feb 2019 - 14:07 by HenningFehrmann
WebStatistics
Statistics for ATLAS Web Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads: ...
NEW - 13 Jul 2018 - 12:49 by OliverBock
ZpoolTests2017
Simple zpool tests on w8501 raidz1 zpool created as 8*(2 1) raidz1: zpool status pool: srv state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAME ...
NEW - 22 Nov 2017 - 16:34 by CarstenAulbert
MonitoringMetrics
Detailed list of metrics we want to monitor Compute nodes (61) * CPU: user / nice / system / wait (4) * disk: * space available/free per locally defi...
NEW - 11 Sep 2017 - 13:15 by CarstenAulbert
MonitoringJessieAndBeyond
Monitoring for Jessie and Beyond What do we want/need to monitor (metrics/checks) A list of non exhaustive metrics and checks we we need/would like to have, e.g....
r23 - 11 Sep 2017 - 13:08 by CarstenAulbert
RadioServer
Atlas Radio Server Typical host names ra1 ra11 Spec table Chassis (3U Chassis) PSU Motherboard X8DT6 network Intel 82574L IPM...
NEW - 28 Apr 2017 - 09:36 by ChristianBeer
PrivateWeb
Webserver serving user content If you need a webserver to serve content from your $HOME to the world, please create the directory ~/WWW on Atlas if it does not ex...
r12 - 21 Feb 2017 - 15:37 by KarlWette
LowLatencyDataFlow
Low Latency Data Flow
NEW - 10 Nov 2016 - 08:26 by CarstenAulbert
AddNewHostSalt
How to add a new host (salt era) This example will use einstein12 as a sample machine which before was known as ra15. Before you begin, you need to have ssh agent...
r5 - 02 Nov 2016 - 10:08 by CarstenAulbert
JessieUpgrade
Cluster upgrade to Debian 8/Jessie We plan to use this page for keeping a record of where we are with respect to our full cluster upgrade to Debian Jessie. Curr...
r4 - 30 Sep 2016 - 12:38 by CarstenAulbert
FaiJessie
FAI Jessie set up 1 base install via old fai jessie 1 base minimal config via salt 1 echo 'deb http://repo.atlas.local/reprepro fai contrib' /etc/apt/...
NEW - 28 Sep 2016 - 14:13 by CarstenAulbert
DisableKM12ManuallyUseKM4
How to disable KM1/2 and use KM4 manually In order to disable KM1/2 and temporarily run with KM4 only, the following steps are needed (please monitor that each ch...
NEW - 26 Sep 2016 - 10:08 by CarstenAulbert
HSMFileSystemCheck
HSM file system check stats (last update: 2016 07 26T18:42Z) Planned steps (starting at 2016 07 26T11:00Z): 1 Issuing condor_hold to all jobs on all submit hos...
r5 - 26 Jul 2016 - 18:42 by CarstenAulbert
GitmasterMigration
How to migrate from gitmaster to gitlab This document explains how to migrate away from gitmaster.atlas.aei.uni hannover.de to the new gitlab.aei.uni hannover.de:...
r11 - 07 Jun 2016 - 05:22 by AlexPost
AptlyTrial
Aptly For the new LDG repo set , we are trying to use aptly as a potential successor to reprepro. The goals are: * support various Debian and Ubuntu releases ...
NEW - 12 May 2016 - 09:04 by CarstenAulbert
EatHDiskConfigTests2
Simple E@H disk layout tests Summary Table with timing results (time in seconds, lower is better): setup file # size/file kB zfs2lc128 zfs2l...
r3 - 08 Apr 2016 - 07:22 by CarstenAulbert
EatHDiskConfigTests
Simple E@H disk layout tests Summary Table with timing results (time in seconds, lower is better): setup md3log z2log/cache zfs3log/cache btrf...
r7 - 07 Apr 2016 - 11:09 by CarstenAulbert
FoswikiMigration
Foswiki Migration assumptions: * /old/ server * wiki.atlas.aei.uni hannover.de * /var/lib/foswiki * /new/ server * 10.20.60.82 * /va...
NEW - 29 Jan 2016 - 14:02 by CarstenAulbert
OraclePartExchange
Oracle Part Exchanges number date of return SR error disk size GB /PN DHL Tracking Auftragsnummer 2013 001 2013 10 07 x ...
r61 - 29 Oct 2015 - 09:31 by CarstenAulbert
LdrDataStatusAtlas
completeness status * type * * detector * * number of files at AEI * * number of files at CIT * * diff * * start time * * end time * * comments ...
r4 - 02 Oct 2015 - 12:45 by HenningFehrmann
GpfsQuestions
general questions are dual port 10GbaseT connectors possible Likely, will be clarified. are 40 GBits (QFSP ) possible Not clear yet. what is the meaning of a q...
r3 - 24 Aug 2015 - 08:48 by HenningFehrmann
VerifySAMTapeDriveOrdering
Checking drive ordering between SL3000 and SAM Following Doc Id 1006246.1 to verify drive ordering matches between SL3000 and SAM/Solaris preparation 1 Shut d...
r2 - 04 Aug 2015 - 11:37 by OliverBock
LllDD
llldd * TCP connection from CIT (or sites) to special receiver machine (possibly need root access for John Zweizig) possibly SL6???? * from there UDP multic...
NEW - 07 Jul 2015 - 19:01 by CarstenAulbert
CondorAccountingGroups
Condor Accounting Groups on Atlas In May 2015, LIGO introduced mandatory accounting groups for jobs running on the LIGO data grid (LDG). As Atlas is part of the L...
r3 - 29 Jun 2015 - 05:30 by CarstenAulbert
IntroductionGeneralPublic
What is ATLAS? ATLAS is a general purpose compute cluster, located in the Albert Einstein Institute for Gravitational Physics, in Hannover Germany, on the campus ...
r27 - 23 Jun 2015 - 07:37 by HenningFehrmann
CondorConfigUpdate2015
HTCondor configuration updates in 2015 (1) Using cgroups to softly enforce memory and core limits Reasoning In the past, we either relied on users' jobs to obey...
r5 - 22 May 2015 - 08:26 by CarstenAulbert
PeakPerformanceAtlas
Simple page about the peak performance of Atlas Components CPUs CPU single precision peak performance GFlops/s cores clock GHz Intel Xe...
r4 - 01 Dec 2014 - 13:13 by CarstenAulbert
DistributedFileSystemsBenchmark
Benchmarking distributed file systems stupid fast tests first, all using small compute nodes and use iozone r 32 s $((2**24 2**25)) i 0 i 1 i 2 i 8 O I S...
r8 - 03 Sep 2014 - 10:20 by CarstenAulbert
TypicalRebootOrderEinsteinAtHome
Cheat sheet for rebooting E@H machines in Hannover If the E@H machines need to be rebooted (e.g. kernel upgrade) here's the proper ordering: Isolated machines Th...
r3 - 29 Jul 2014 - 08:55 by BerndMachenschalk
SqlDumpEinsteinAtHome
SQLDump tests for Einstein@home On einstein db1 the following was found: # no compresion /usr/bin/mysqldump opt master data=2 EinsteinAtHome mbuffer /dev/nu...
NEW - 24 Jul 2014 - 11:38 by CarstenAulbert
CurrentSysOpTasks
This is just an unsorted, unfiltered list of current tasks and services all over the AEI (and beyond) which could be counted as SYSOP related. It is neither compl...
r2 - 23 Jul 2014 - 15:03 by OliverBock
ClusterGuide
Common guide lines for cluster usage This document describes common pitfalls and guide lines when using a large computing cluster. Some of the details are specifi...
NEW - 18 Jul 2014 - 10:16 by CarstenAulbert
ConfigurationManagement
Configuration Management (primer/summary/brainstormer) What's out there? These are not really meant for configuration mgmt (alone) and have their strengths somew...
r6 - 10 Jul 2014 - 18:07 by OliverBock
DistributedFilesystems
Distributed/clustered file systems This page should summarize what scenarios such file systems could fulfill within Atlas and what we expect from it. Properties s...
r5 - 30 Jun 2014 - 09:45 by OliverBock
HSMUpgradeJuly2014
HSM Upgrade July 2014 This is the proposed plan, small changes may be needed Move from x4270 to x4 2l Moving to new meta data server should result in more file s...
NEW - 26 Jun 2014 - 15:36 by CarstenAulbert
PlannedNextSteps
Planned steps for Atlas Update to Wheezy Steps to perform: * get new head nodes up and running * reinstall all old nodes a0101...a3842, gpu001...gpu0XX ...
NEW - 20 Jun 2014 - 08:59 by CarstenAulbert
LSCDirectoryStructure
Directory hierarchy for LSC files Storage structure for S4/S5/S6 data (past) In the past we used paths like these H/H1/RDS/C03/L1/H H1_RDS_C03_L1 822092472 60.gw...
r5 - 13 Jun 2014 - 09:59 by HenningFehrmann
ConfigurationPossibilitiesFCArray
Short overview on different configuration possibilities for FC arrays Our DDN FC array currently houses 600 disks (400 3 TB drives and 200 2 TB drives). DDN only ...
NEW - 23 May 2014 - 14:40 by CarstenAulbert
CoreSwitch
caption abbreviation explanation A left FS1000 B right FS1000 LC line card in EFX 1000 L leaf P port R rack s sun box ...
r72 - 04 Apr 2014 - 08:47 by HenningFehrmann
BCacheBenchmarking
Benchmarking bcache Evaluating if bcache can/should be used on our compute nodes. Benchmarking was performed with iozone (revision 3.397) with the command line io...
r2 - 28 Mar 2014 - 10:20 by CarstenAulbert
ManagementNetwork
HP switch mapping CC3E5FCF11D8 172.25.13.39 mgs039b CC3E5FCF4968 172.25.13.43 mgs043b CC3E5FCF3778 172.25.13.44 mgs044b CC3E5FCF2860 172.25.13.44 mgs045b CC3E5FCF...
r7 - 17 Mar 2014 - 14:07 by HenningFehrmann
HPDataNetConfiguration
basic configuration the default baud rate is 9600 first steps Use the serial console with a baud rate of 9600 and do system view interface Route Aggregation 1...
r12 - 06 Mar 2014 - 13:19 by HenningFehrmann
HSM6780CreateServiceDataFile
Create Service Data File for 6780 In case a hard drive is about to fail (or has already failed), Oracle support needs one special file collection, to create this,...
r3 - 24 Feb 2014 - 07:51 by CarstenAulbert
CompressionSizeEfficiency
Comparing efficiency and size of compressors With samfs and archive dumps being rather large, we needed a good compression scheme for these. We use a 101GB (1033...
r5 - 20 Feb 2014 - 14:10 by CarstenAulbert
HsmSolaris11Update
HSM upgrade Current status 2014 02 01T12:33Z: samfsdump/final backup stopped due to too many non archived files. Rushing to archive those as fast as possible. 20...
r12 - 05 Feb 2014 - 11:12 by CarstenAulbert
Solaris11FirstSteps
First steps with Solaris 11 I'm using the old x4440 machine, booting off a solaris 11 CD based on sol 11_1 text x86.iso. You must exit the grub countdown with ESC...
r4 - 12 Dec 2013 - 09:20 by CarstenAulbert
WorkEndOfYear2013
Infrastructure work at the end of 2013 work status planned dates move gpu001...gpu010 to rack 100 TBD 1952 2013 12 09 move gpu011...gpu02...
NEW - 09 Dec 2013 - 06:55 by CarstenAulbert
EinsteinAtHomeMachineHeadCount
Einstein@Home machine head count Please check this list to make migration and finding/cabling machines easier (racks used for these machines should be 79 (water c...
r9 - 02 Dec 2013 - 09:25 by CarstenAulbert
KernelBuilding
Building an atlas Kernel This assumes that a stable linux kernel source tree already exists on a machine (bob, /srv/kernel/linux stable), cloned via git clone git...
r4 - 05 Nov 2013 - 08:23 by CarstenAulbert
RackLayout2014
Rack layout for 2014 Row 1 rack number main usage 1 old 2008 compute nodes 2 old 2008 compute nodes 3 old 2008 compute nodes 4 ...
r2 - 04 Nov 2013 - 08:38 by CarstenAulbert
RackLayout
Rack layout which racks contained what and when 
Basic information * rack rows are numbered 1 to 10 * Water cooled racks are numbered 1 to 102 * open ...
Basic information * rack rows are numbered 1 to 10 * Water cooled racks are numbered 1 to 102 * open ...r2 - 01 Nov 2013 - 10:19 by CarstenAulbert
RackLayoutEmptyTemplate
Empty Table Template Row 1 rack number main usage 1 2 3 4 5 6 A 7 8 9 10 ...
r2 - 01 Nov 2013 - 10:17 by CarstenAulbert
RackLayoutEndOf2013
Rack layout at the end of 2013 Row 1 rack number main usage 1 compute nodes 2 compute nodes 3 compute nodes 4 compute nodes ...
r2 - 01 Nov 2013 - 10:16 by CarstenAulbert
DataNetwork2013
New networking set up for Atlas From 2008 till 2013 we used a flat networking structure, i.e. all computers on the data network were connected "directly" to the c...
r2 - 13 Oct 2013 - 14:11 by CarstenAulbert
NewsTicker
News Ticker for Atlas * 2013 09 03 Start moving hbeggenstein from s10 to HSM/C2 Main.CarstenAulbert 04 Sep 2013
NEW - 04 Sep 2013 - 09:21 by CarstenAulbert
GeneralOverview
For Users * General Introduction for Users * Useful Items * How ATLAS stores files * ErrorMessages and how to fix them (not updated) General Document...
r8 - 07 Jun 2013 - 09:35 by HenningFehrmann
EFX1000
Category:Network Category:WovenSystems This Page is about our ATLAS.CoreSwitch. You might also want to read the TRX page. Configuration access serial not wor...
r5 - 07 Jun 2013 - 09:35 by HenningFehrmann
WebPreferences
ATLAS Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the ATLAS web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in . and , and c...
r16 - 20 May 2013 - 14:52 by CarstenAulbert
EinsteinAtHomeBackfillWithCgroups
Using cgroups to push backfill into the background apt get update apt get y install boinc client libboinc app7 cgroup bin rsync a n0669:/etc/default/boinc clien...
NEW - 16 Apr 2013 - 20:10 by CarstenAulbert
LINDYCOMPowerSwitchLITE
LINDY COMPower Switch LITE 8 Main.AlexPost 11 May 2009: This document describes the use of the LINDY 8port Power Strip 32453. The easiest way to access the po...
r6 - 10 Apr 2013 - 08:48 by BerndMachenschalk
DebianLiveBuild
Create benchmark image with Debian live build apt get install live build lb config archives live.debian.net mkdir /srv/live default cd /srv/live default lb ...
NEW - 26 Mar 2013 - 10:02 by CarstenAulbert
TestUpload
testupload Main.SebastianGleicher 31 Jan 2013
NEW - 31 Jan 2013 - 13:28 by SebastianGleicher
WorkPlanShutdown20130115
Work planned for cluster shutdown on 2013 01 15 shutdown plan The following services will be shut down 1 all compute nodes possibly with the exception of "r...
NEW - 10 Jan 2013 - 08:03 by CarstenAulbert
EdacUtilsLabel
The proper labels for the /etc/edac/labels.db are: Vendor: Supermicro Model: PDSML DIMM 1A: 0.0.0, 0.1.0; DIMM 2A: 0.0.1, 0.1.1; DIMM 1B: 0.2.0, 0.3.0; ...
r2 - 10 Dec 2012 - 09:41 by CarstenAulbert
TestTopic12
test Main.CarstenAulbert 13 Nov 2012
r2 - 14 Nov 2012 - 10:39 by CarstenAulbert
EinsteinAtHomeDownloadserverRAID
Einstein@home RAID setup testing Over time the einstein abp1 download server (mostly BRP project) went through various updates to increase download throughput (ap...
NEW - 11 Sep 2012 - 06:18 by CarstenAulbert
BenchmarkCentral
Central benchmark page All our benchmark results should be linked from this page to help rediscovering already performed benchmarks. Ideally, a summary page will ...
r3 - 11 Sep 2012 - 05:40 by CarstenAulbert
AircoGericht
1.: Uns wurde gesagt, dass zu wartende Teile eine Gewährleistungsdauer von 2 Jahre habe. Nicht zu wartende Teile haben eine Gewährleistungsdauer von 5 Jahren. Dur...
r2 - 05 Jul 2012 - 12:44 by CarstenAulbert
CoolingIssuesSummary
Zusammenfassung Kühlprobleme hauptsächlich externe Aermec Kaltwassersätze Gerichtsverfahren Verlauf involvierte Firmen $ Airco : Anlagenbauer der Kältean...
r22 - 05 Jul 2012 - 11:25 by HenningFehrmann
KvmOnVM
generate a kvm environment on vm * login on vm * edit /srv/kvm/config/imagename.conf and add this or similar settings * NIC1=int * NIC2=ext ...
r6 - 02 Jul 2012 - 09:17 by HenningFehrmann
AddNewUser
AddNewUser How to add a new user All this is now done by atlas_adduser.pl from our git repo! The remaining stuff here is done for the fictitious user foo BAR, an...
r6 - 19 Jun 2012 - 09:08 by CarstenAulbert
Internal-serialnumbers
Serial Numbers and MACs of our X4500 Name S/N xge0 e1000g0 e1000g1 e1000g2 e1000g3 s01 0746AMT037 0:c:fc:0:3f:53 0:14:4f:a6:d1:f4 0:14:4f...
r9 - 14 May 2012 - 14:34 by HenningFehrmann
ZFSBenchmarkTest
ZFS Send/Receive Performance Testing Since we want to backup and move users' home file systems regularly between Thumpers we want to have as much speed as poss...
r20 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:26 by CarstenAulbert
S01BenchmarkSSD
Testing different zpool layouts on Thumper Local testing with iozone Essentially the tests were made with a single iozone run per file system, zfs compression wa...
r9 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:26 by CarstenAulbert
IozoneArecaMirror
Iozone on Areca server Command line iozone a g 16G O n 32K y 32 q 32 i 0 i 2 Disk layout The disk layout for the four test was in RAID1 or RAID10 mode o...
r4 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:26 by CarstenAulbert
ChannelBondingBenchmark
Channelbonding Benchmark Monitoring CPU,Interupts,Traffic (eth0,eth1,bond0) via dstat T1, T2, T3 are Testnodes n1668, n1669, n1670 (1) netperf Setup * a) S0...
r3 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:25 by CarstenAulbert
ZFSioZone
IOZone ZFS performance benchmark On s01 with a ZFS layout like this one: atlashome raidz2 c0t0d0 c1t0d0 c4t0d0 c6t0d0 c7t0d0 c0t1d...
r3 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:25 by CarstenAulbert
MyricomBenchmarking
Myrycom Benchmarking We received two myricom NICs for evaluation 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: MYRICOM Inc. Myri 10G Dual Protocol NIC (10G PCIE 8A) These netperf ...
r2 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:25 by CarstenAulbert
BenchmarksBonnieX4500
Measured performance with this command line bonnie s 32768 d /path/to/dir u 1000 The results are # data server locally store03,32G,76714,99,358710,47,160723,3...
r2 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:24 by CarstenAulbert
FfsbFileSystemsComputeNodes
Testing different file systems on Atlas compute nodes We are using the attached ffsb profiles for testing, these are just a first shot at the problem, but might p...
r6 - 24 Apr 2012 - 12:24 by CarstenAulbert
FortinetSwitches
serial numbers, MAC addresses and IP addresse FS100 serial number MAC address IP address status QTFCFI7470011 00:1b:24:be:0b:00 10.25.0.1 ...
r2 - 20 Apr 2012 - 08:39 by HenningFehrmann
AtlasBoincCondor
Atlas Boinc Condor Scheduling As Condor's fetchwork does not seem to work with dynamic slots, we are working on our own "scheduling" system for BOINC Initial tho...
r7 - 16 Apr 2012 - 14:39 by CarstenAulbert
IntroductionUsers
Atlas basic usage guide First things first Be nice to others, others should be nice to you as well :) Please read this aloud: I will be nice to other users, and ...
r16 - 05 Apr 2012 - 17:22 by CarstenAulbert
MoveToSqueeze
Move from Debian Lenny to Debian Squeeze Changes * updated packages from upstream Debian * Condor 7.6 with dynamic slots on most execute machines (exceptio...
r9 - 05 Apr 2012 - 13:15 by CarstenAulbert
AtlasTour
Small tour of Atlas Atlas is a computer cluster situated in the basement of a university building near the Max Planck institute in Hannover. Since the ceiling is ...
r8 - 29 Mar 2012 - 13:21 by CarstenAulbert
DataServer2011
Atlas Data Server 2011 Typical host names from Delta (ra01) Spec table Chassis Supermicro 3U Chassis PSU Motherboard X8DT6 network ...
r7 - 27 Mar 2012 - 14:21 by KatharinaIsleif
ComputeNode2008
Atlas Compute Node 2008 These Supermicro based machines were bought from Pyramid in 2008. Typical host names n0001 n1680 Spec table Chassis SC811T 300B (1...
r10 - 27 Mar 2012 - 14:21 by KatharinaIsleif
GPU
Atlas Compute Node 2010 Typical host names from Sysgen (gpu001 gpu065) Spec table Chassis Sysgen 4U Chassis PSU Emacs PSL 6C00V Motherboard...
r6 - 27 Mar 2012 - 14:08 by KatharinaIsleif
DataServer2008
Atlas Data Server 2008 Typical host names d10 d30 Spec table Chassis 836TQ R800B (4U Chassis) PSU Motherboard X7DVL network Intel ...
r6 - 27 Mar 2012 - 09:02 by KatharinaIsleif
HeadNode2008
Atlas Head Node 2008 Typical host names atlas1, atlas2, atlas3, atlas4 Spec table Chassis 836TQ R800B (4U Chassis) PSU Motherboard X7DVL ...
r8 - 27 Mar 2012 - 09:01 by KatharinaIsleif
HeadNode2009
Atlas Head Node 2009 Typical host names titan1, titan2 Spec table Chassis Sysgen 1U Chassis PSU SanAce80 Motherboard H8DM8 2 network ...
r6 - 23 Mar 2012 - 09:54 by KatharinaIsleif
ComputeNode
Atlas Compute nodes Compute Node 2008 In 2008 we bought 1680 Supermicro based machines from Pyramid in 2008, getting a total of 6720 2.4GHz compute cores, 13TB R...
r10 - 21 Mar 2012 - 10:36 by KatharinaIsleif
TestTopic8
For Squeeze all need to be performed in a chroot, i.e. run cowbuilder update basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base.squeeze.amd64.cow/ # prepare environment apt ...
r6 - 15 Mar 2012 - 14:01 by CarstenAulbert
ShutdownPriority
Shutdown priorities The following list puts priorities on computers, equipment and other items of interest. Computers in racks, which will stay powered up, should...
r4 - 15 Mar 2012 - 09:41 by CarstenAulbert
MainPage
Main Categories * 24 Hour Test * Hannover LSC LOC * Cluster * Globus Grid Software * Tips Tricks * Stundenzettel * Internal:Main Page...
r3 - 02 Mar 2012 - 14:12 by ArthurVarkentin
WhereShallIPutLogFiles
Where shall I put my (Condor) log files? As always, the correct answer is: It depends. You can put your log files in your home, e.g. assuming your user name is MY...
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
WindowsCiscoVPNClient
Windows Cisco VPN Client How to connect to the 10.117.0.0 network of Max Plank Institute with VPN The Cicso VPN Client with the pcf file calls AEI 10NET.pfc can ...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
XfsRepair
Repair a xfs filesystem A XFS file system can become corrupted due to a power cut, a kernel bug or something else. To repair it, please use a recent version of xf...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
VirtualboxAndUSBOnGutsy
Virtualbox and USB on gutsy Getting USB support working in virtualbox under Ubuntu gutsy 0) for general important info for virtualbox on gutsy, see FAQ: #91;31 ...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
VerifyingSMIMEmail
How to verify a S/MIME signed email (X.509) * save the email into a file * check that the certificate authority for this sender is known in your system, e.g...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
VideoCaptureBox
Video capture box How to use the video capture box we got from Golm: Some good documenation how to use VLC for capturing multiple devices and creating a mosaic wi...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SshPasswordLess
Ssh password less Three steps to passless ssh (without ssh agent) ... 1 Use ssh keygen to generate the key pair ssh keygen t rsa ! do NOT use passphrase, ju...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SuseCiscoVPN
Suse Cisco VPN Installing Cisco VPN Client in Suse If you want to connect with your suse to an VPN network, it's very simple. Now we install an VPN Client and ma...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SvnToGit
In order to convert existent SVN repositories to git there are a few simple steps to take. First of all you'll need the following tools (if not already available)...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SolarisSNMP
* install netsnmp pkg get i netsmp * create a configuration file /opt/csw/share/snmp/snmpd.conf rocommunity public disk /atlashome 5% load 12 6 3 syslocati...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SshFS
How to mount your Atlas home on your computer Using sshfs it is quite simple but could be a little bit on the slower side of life. Prerequisites: 1. Make sure...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SendingAutoSMS
How to send automatic SMS messages (via host postfix) Create a temporary file which looks like this: To: 49123456789 This is the SMS text and then move the fil...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SolarisFMADM
How to read failure information on Solaris and how to "repair" old faults. Using fmdump one can look at the past error logs, while fmadm faulty will display fault...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SolarisInstallPostfix
Superseed sendmail with postfix on Solaris 10 1. update blastwave packages: pkgutil u 1. install postfix: pkgutil i postfix 1. disable sendmail: scvadm...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
RestartGEOSEGDB
Restart GEOSegDB if service does not work anymore * log into geosegdb either as root/suser/ldbd (x509 certs) * assume ldbd identity * run db2start * a...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
RunningOctaveScriptsOnATLAS
Some things to be aware of when running Octave scripts on ATLAS: Octave path searching When an Octave script calls a non built in function, Octave will look thro...
r6 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
SamQFSExportTapes
How to export/import tapes from SL3000 Export tapes Explanatory task: tapes from the secondary copy of a file system should be exported * Log into metadata se...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
RecoverDeletedFiles
How to recover a file you accidentally deleted? If you $HOME is on a ZFS file system 1 you can easily retrieve files you deleted from an automatic snapshot creat...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
RedmineUsage
This basic tutorial describes the correct usage of the Redmine bugtracker. After the login you will be redirected to your own page which can be customized by usig...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
RescueDataFromBrokenDisk
How to rescue data from a broken disk If a disk is "only" throwing errors, but is not entirely dead yet, dd might help, but can cause a lot of grief. This recipe ...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
ProtectWebpagesWithHTAccess
How to protect a web page with .htaccess If you happen to need to protect a web page but not only for LSC usage, you need to perform the following steps: * Cre...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
RAIDControllerSoftware
How To Talk To RAID Controller ARECA CLI Download the command line interface (CLI) at this mirror and run chmod a x on the binary.
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
OracleHSMCollectEvidenceForProblems
Collect evidence data for an Oracle case (HSM) Based on based experience we should perform the following before restarting samd or even rebooting the machine: ...
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
PortForwarding
using iptables A gateway with two network cards conntects a LAN with WAN. This document describes, how to forward ports of nodes in the LAN to ports of the gatewa...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
MatlabUnderCondor
Running compiled Matlab under Condor Problems Multiple users on the same node When running compiled Matlab codes under Condor, you need to be aware that the def...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
Netboot
Netboot This is a simple description how to boot over a network using kernel on the remote server. Server side configuration To proivde net boot capabilities, yo...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
Lvm
What is LVM ? Note: This may answer the question, why editing the /etc config files does nothing. If you don't have a backup, you can re create the equivalent of ...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
MatlabInterferingLibraryPath
Dangers when sourcing the Matlab runtime environment Problem When sourcing the Matlab runtime environment (currently /opt/matlab/2008a/MCR/MCRSetup_R2008a_glnxa6...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
MatlabRemoteConnectionMacOS
Problems with X11 when connecting with MacOS X to headnodes If you experience problems running X programs, e.g. Matlab (even in command line mode), you might be h...
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
LocalSshConfig
Local ssh configuration You can create shortcuts as well as special settings for hosts you want to connect to in the file $HOME/.ssh/config. The following lines c...
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
LscPackages
The following packages are currently available in our repository: Main.CarstenAulbert 21 Aug 2008
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
LigoDataFind
Using ligo_data_find (successor to LSCdataFind) The command line arguments are basically the same as before with LSCdataFind. One new feature is the P or no pro...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
LiveSystem
We have a pxe bootable live system to examine a node without touching the system on the harddrive. It is basically a self made chroot environment. usage * st...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
JumpstartSolaris
Jumpstart Solaris How To clone our Solaris Sun boxes: Create flash archive flarcreate n "s01 flash" c R / x /atlashome /atlashome/carsten/s01.flar Our conf...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
KeepX509CertificateAliveAfterLogout
Keep your X.509 certificate alive after logging out of the cluster On some occasions one needs a valid grid proxy to access data, query the file database using LS...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
HowToComputerIsOffline
HOWTO: Guideline to repair an offline computer Evaluate current status (remotely) 1. Try to log in via data network 1. Try to log in via mgmt network 1....
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
ILOMUpdate
HOWTO Update ILOM Firmware cf. ILOM Howto Update ILOM Firmware * Log in in ILOM CLI and type "version" to check * Download new Firmware versions http://w...
r8 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
HardwareRepair
Main.HenningFehrmann 24 Jul 2008 abstract This page contains detected symptoms and the corresponding hardware problems. It is based on experiences. See the list ...
r13 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
HardwareResources
ATLAS Hardware Resources And Photo Gallery This is about the hardware resources that ATLAS is based on and related photos Computer node There are 1680 Computer n...
r21 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
GsiSSHonwindows
How to use GSI enabled ssh on Windows * Get a certificate * fill out the request form at Webinterface of GridKa CA * in a few days you will receive...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
GsisshOpenSSLError
Why do I get an openssl related problem when logging into a machine? If you see something like this: GSSAPI Error: GSS Major Status: Authentication Failed GSS Min...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
GlobusURLCopy
How to use gridftp In general the remote site should be running a gsiftp server which will accept your user credentials (X.509 grid certificate). The full syntax ...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:35 by ArthurVarkentin
GangliaMonitoring
How to monitor the current usage of LSC clusters or Atlas? There are two nice web pages summarizing these information. First of all there is watchtower which is a...
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
Fdisk
What is fdisk? fdisk is a command line partition manager available for a lot of platforms. Usage general fdisk l Lists the partition table fdisk /dev/...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
FixBootArchiveSolaris
How to fix a Solaris boot archive After an update it might happen, that the bootarchive is invalid/damaged. To fix this, boot into the failsafe mode (usually seco...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
FoswikiReprepro
How to create a pulling foswiki set up with reprepro Assuming you are already in the location where the repository shall live, perform these magic steps: mkdir co...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
Dos
This explains how to get FreeDOS working with TCP/IP and ssh. The Problem Sometimes, it is necessary to flash the BIOS, the IPMI card or to set the BIOS. For som...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
FaiLennyClasses
RFC: Classes list for FAI/Lenny The Etch installation scheme with our FAI server used one class for each type of node (NODE_COMPUTE, STORAGE, ...) but this is som...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
DebianSqueezeVDT
Getting VDT up and running on Debian Squeeze Problem description As of 2010 03 12 there is a new openssl version in squeeze which is somewhat incompatible with t...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
Debootstrap
Debootstrap It is sufficient to read the man page. To debootstrap from local deb mirror: debootstrap distribution dest. directory http://192.168.0.1:9999/deb...
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
DebianPackaging
This documentation will briefly summarize how to build packages. At the time of writing this, we focused on packages for Debian etch and lenny in i386 and amd64 v...
r11 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
DebianSourcePackage
This is a short explanation of how to create debian source package. Assume you want to build package x.y.tar.gz. 1. Rename that one to package x.y.orig.tar.gz. 2....
r3 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
CondorDagManHowTo
Brief Condor dagman HowTo This small article will not get into any depth what DAGs are and will also not explain the terminology of Condor's dagman, for this plea...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
ConserverDocumentation
Conserver Conserver is a server/client program enabling to pool console connections. The upstream page is at http://www.conserver.com/, in Debian the packages are...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
DebianPackageBuild
How to create a Debian package? Tutorials: * Debian packaging tutorial by Lars Wirzenius * Debian packaging tutorial * Debian New Maintainer Guide Bad st...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
CondorBoincDynamicSlots
Condor, BOINC and dynamic slots As Condor's dynamic slots don't yet mix with "fetch work", we build the system around a dedicated, cron based system running on a ...
r2 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
ClusterMonitoring
ClusterMonitoring Description We need to monitor frequently various values in the cluster. See Ticket here: https://n0.aei.uni hannover.de/tracking/issues/show/...
r48 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
CompilingTempo2OnUbuntuAMD64
Compiling tempo2 on Ubuntu AMD64 The pgplot packages shipped with ubuntu are not consistently compiled using fPIC, which results in an unusable cpgplot wrapper l...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
CleanLocalScratch
Clean the local scratch space Sometimes you want to get rid off all temporary stuff you left on any compute node (e.g. you just finished a big search, all results...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
CleaningHomeDirectory
Cleaning your $HOME Quick steps for those who have no time to spare 1. Locate directory which you don't need right now but which produced a lot of small Condo...
r13 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BuildFarm
How to create a build farm. Installation/Preparation Install the necessary base packages sudo aptitude install pbuilder cowdancer reprepro rebuildd * pbuild...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BuildMatlab
How to build Matlab Before Installation You need: matlab installation cd ( or iso image ), pbuilder, installation key, license file to activate the product, ping...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
Bind9
updating the DB If you want to add names to the db (e.g. /etc/bind9/atlas.local.db), please make sure to follow these steps: (1) Increase serial number by using t...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BobPackaging
Packaging on Bob This page documents how to use git buildpackage to build packages local and on the server. Quick recipe (only builds on the server) * insta...
r12 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BadBlocksXFS
Badblocks on XFS Essentially the same as for ext 23 as shown on the smartmontools homepage. Please follow this example: smartctl reports bad sector # smartctl ...
r7 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BadblocksPatch
Using Badblocks for testing hdds on the nodes one normally uses $ badblocks v p10 /dev/sdb which checks the disk. if it makes 10 clean runs it will exit. but if...
r7 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BackupSVN
How to backup (and restore) a SVN repository Backup First create a hotcopy somewhere where enough free space is available: mkdir /tmp/hotcopy svnadmin hotcopy ...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
BadBlockTesting
How to find bad blocks on hard drives Testing hard drives with bad blocks: 1 smartctl a /dev/sdb 1 badblocks b 512 p 1 t random s w /dev/sdb 1 smar...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
AutomaticEnvironmentSetup
Automatic environment setup Introduction After the upgrade to Debian Lenny, we finally offer the psosiblity to automatically set up your environment. This is bei...
r5 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
AutomatingTelnet
Automating telnet Here a quick and dirty bash script, showing how you could automate some configuration tasks to be done in a menu based telnet session. E.g. to d...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
Apache
Apache Limit access to certain directories: Add AllowOverride AuthConfig in your config section in httpd.conf or where you define your servers. In the limit...
r4 - 10 Feb 2012 - 14:34 by ArthurVarkentin
GlusterFSTesting
Testing GlusterFS with data servers Brainstorm for i in 0 1 2 3 4; do blkid /dev/md$i awk "{print \$2 \" /data\" $i 1 \" xfs rw 0 2\"}"; done Main.CarstenAul...
NEW - 19 Jan 2012 - 12:32 by CarstenAulbert
GSTLALDependencyPackage
Building the GSTLAL Dependency Package for Lenny Preperation phase Start in a fresh location by issuing the following commands: mkdir p gstlal/gst deps 1.0/pack...
r3 - 10 Jan 2012 - 20:49 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS07
anamaria s07 2 0.0 1.00x s08 0.0 2011 12 16T05:18:01 UTC anderson s07 71 0.0 1.98x s08 0.0 2011 12 16T05...
NEW - 16 Dec 2011 - 05:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS09
amergl s09 1.55x s10 0.7 2011 12 16T05:18:01 UTC ecm s09 1.66x s10 2273.3 2011 12 16T05:18:02 UTC ...
NEW - 16 Dec 2011 - 05:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS11
acmeyer s11 1 0.0 1.00x s12 0.0 2011 12 16T05:18:01 UTC apetit s11 35596 34.7 1.02x s12 30.2 2011 12 16T...
NEW - 16 Dec 2011 - 05:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS04
ajw s04 16457429 973.0 1.37x s05 613.0 2011 12 15T17:18:03 UTC akm2129 s04 1 0.0 1.00x s05 0.0 2011 12 1...
NEW - 15 Dec 2011 - 17:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS06
acorsi s06 1 0.0 1.00x s07 0.0 2011 12 15T17:18:05 UTC andonis s06 1 0.0 1.00x s07 0.0 2011 12 15T17:18:...
NEW - 15 Dec 2011 - 17:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS08
NONE s08 1 0.0 1.00x s09 0.0 2011 12 15T17:18:02 UTC Rory.smith s08 1628865 1402.1 4.61x s09 340.0 2011 ...
NEW - 15 Dec 2011 - 17:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS10
acsearle s10 122375 2.0 1.00x s11 1.1 2011 12 15T17:18:00 UTC amelatos s10 1 0.0 1.00x s11 0.0 2011 12 1...
NEW - 15 Dec 2011 - 17:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatS12
benk s12 9258073 4586.8 1.03x s13 4126.7 2011 12 15T17:18:02 UTC cbc s12 323101 68.0 1.14x s13 41.2 2011...
NEW - 15 Dec 2011 - 17:18 by CarstenAulbert
RackNodeNumbering
Rack numbering We only count the cooled rack space with numbers, the open racks are "counted" with letters. Please look at the following diagram: Compute Nodes T...
r11 - 15 Dec 2011 - 11:43 by HenningFehrmann
BackupStatS05
Aje8 s05 1 0.0 1.00x s06 0.0 2011 12 15T05:18:04 UTC ale87 s05 1 0.0 1.00x s06 0.0 2011 12 15T05:18:06 U...
NEW - 15 Dec 2011 - 05:18 by CarstenAulbert
BackupStatD04
HOST: d04 available: 2.58TB used: 6.78TB files: 24989199 DONE
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BackupStatD05
HOST: d05 available: 1.14TB used: 8.23TB files: 63203 DONE
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BackupStatD06
HOST: d06 available: 6.94TB used: 2.43TB files: 52640 DONE
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BackupStatD10
HOST: d10 available: 15.65TB used: 9.64TB files: 284890 DONE
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BackupStatD11
HOST: d11 available: 15.65TB used: 9.63TB files: 284140 DONE
NEW - 09 Dec 2011 - 11:11 by UnknownUser
BackupStatD14
HOST: d14 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 276869 DONE
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BackupStatD15
HOST: d15 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 276439 DONE
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BackupStatD19
HOST: d19 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 276313 DONE
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BackupStatD21
HOST: d21 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 169414 DONE
NEW - 09 Dec 2011 - 11:11 by UnknownUser
BackupStatD22
HOST: d22 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 168579 DONE
NEW - 09 Dec 2011 - 11:11 by UnknownUser
BackupStatD24
HOST: d24 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 168572 DONE
NEW - 09 Dec 2011 - 11:11 by UnknownUser
BackupStatD27
HOST: d27 available: 0.00TB used: 9.37TB files: 169635 DONE
NEW - 09 Dec 2011 - 11:11 by UnknownUser
BackupStatD30
HOST: d30 available: 1.87TB used: 7.49TB files: 12820263 DONE
NEW - 09 Dec 2011 - 11:11 by UnknownUser
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