New best fit OSCAR Cluster Configuration

Setelah 4 hari bertapa di ruangan data center. akhirnya.. tembus juga OSCAR Cluster di Linux OS yang baru-baru. Konfigurasi software barunya :
- OSCAR 5.1 RC1
- CentOS 5.3 X86_64

Instalation Step :
1. Install CentOS 5.3
Note :
- pilih juga paket-paket program yang berkaitan dengan Software development, perl dan X termasuk createrepo
- disable firewall
- disable selinux

2. edit /etc/hosts <– baca readme OSCAR
3. edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config enable permitrootlogin yes
4. edit /etc/yum.conf disable gpgcheck
5. copy semua *.rpm dvd centos ke /tftpboot/distro/centos-5-x86_64
6. extract all oscar-repo*.tar.gz ke /tftpboot/oscar/
7. install yume dari /tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms/
8. yume –repo /tftpboot/oscar/common-rpms install oscar-base
9. edit PackageSmart.pm line 74 tambahkan “|centos”
10. cd /opt/oscar/
11. ./install_cluster eth0
12. ikuti 9 step wizard oscar
13. disable selinux on slave node boot
finally …………….
– done — done — done — and done –

Tentu saja, percobaan gagal sudah banyak dilakukan :
- Centos 5.3 + Oscar 6.0.3 + repo online <– failed to build client image
- Centos 5.3 + Oscar 6.0.3 + repo dvd <– failed to build client image
- Centos 5.2 + Oscar 6.0.3 + repo dvd <– failed to build client image
- FC9 64 bit <– anaconda error saat install FC9
- Centos 5.2 + Oscar 5.1b2 <– failed openmpi not exist