Rama upgrade
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Rama needs upgrading to a supported operating system. SLES10 looks like a good choice as it will last for the rest of the machine's natural life.
Things that will change:
- The very oldest compilers will be dropped
- The ancient OpenPBS queueing system will be replaced with shiny new Torque (it'll look exactly the same to users, but work lots better behind the scenes)
- environment modules will be made sane and compulsory
- queue names rationalised
- node names rationalised in Torque
- /var will be made a reasonable size
- maybe we'll get bigger disks and so more space
- /users will become /home (but I'll make a symlink)
Things to worry about:
- support for SCSI controller - looks like the dpt_i2o module is standard so unlikely to be a problem. Might be a plan to boot the thing off the SLES10 CD before mucking about with the RAID though, just to be sure.
- Will the system support bigger disks? Streamline are kindly investigating.
- I assume the nodes PXE boot
Things to do:
- get my hands on the management software for the RAID controller.
Although it is starting to look like it is not downloadable for Linux.