Why does RSH not work? Symptoms – rsh <hostname> <command> results in poll: protocol failure in circuit setup – /var/log/messages contains in.rshd message like “Could...
How do I install Oracle’s JRE/JDK on a Bright Cluster? After downloading the JDK (or JRE) RPM package from Oracle you can install it asfollows:rpm -Uvh --relocate /usr/java=/cm/shared/apps/java jre-7u55-linux-x64.rpmcd /cm/shared/apps/javaln -s jre1.7.0_55 current...
How do I run the HPL test on a Bright Cluster? What is HPL? Slightly rewording from http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/: HPL is a software package that solves a random, dense linear system of equations with N unknowns,...
How can I use CUDA MPS with Bright? Introduction CUDA MPS is a feature that allows multiple CUDA processes to share a single GPU context. A CUDA program...
My program needs Python 3 in order to run. How do I install it? Running yum search cm-python3 (the prefix “cm-” is important) should turn up the Bright Cluster Manager Python 3 package for...
How do I enable OHPC with Bright? “OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required to...
How can I build Lustre RPMs for the Mellanox OFED? You will need to download the Lustre source RPM from: https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.9.0/el7/client/ Replace 2.9.0 with the desired version The SRPM can...
How do I integrate GPFS with Bright? GPFS can be integrated with Bright in two ways. Either by mounting a GPFS filesystem on an existing Bright Cluster,...
How can I run ScaleMP on Bright? This guide describes how to use ScaleMP’s vSMP for Cloud product to create virtual SMP nodes in a cluster. Installing...
How does the mlnx-ofed*-install.sh/qlgc-ofed-install.sh script work? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I integrate ZFS with Bright? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I configure BeeGFS to run on an InfiniBand interface? How do I configure BeeGFS to do native IB rather than IP over IB? This article is being updated. Please be...
How do I install WekaIO on a Bright Cluster? This article provides information on installing Weka on a Bright cluster. There are two parts two this article, the first...
How can I fix “Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch?” The “Failed to initialize NVML: Driver/library version mismatch?” error generally means the CUDA Driver is still running an older release...
How do I enable OpenHPC 2.0 on a Bright Cluster? “OpenHPC is a collaborative, community effort that initiated from a desire to aggregate a number of common ingredients required to...
How do I disable Shorewall, IPtables? NOTE: Shorewall provides a NAT Masquerade rule that allows the compute nodes to access networks that are outside the cluster...
How to remove or disable nslcd This article applies to Bright 8.2 and later releases If another authentication mechanism is to be used, SSSD for example,...
Running Jupyter kernel with Conda (Anaconda/Miniconda) environments Bright Cluster Manager’s data science add-on provides many ML related packages that can be used to run AI workloads on...
Using enroot and pyxis in Bright Cluster Manager These instructions are not relevant for installations of Bright Cluster Manager 9.1 and newer. An integration with enroot and pyxis...
Installing and using GNOME windows manager with Jupyter and VNC It it possible to use Gnome WM with Jupyter and VNC integration. Then it is required to reboot or re-sync...
Deploying NICE DCV on a Bright cluster This article discusses deploying a NICE DCV server on Bright managed compute nodes.We recommend reviewing the excellent third-party NICE DCV...
Running Jupyter kernels with an IDE Bright Cluster Manager’s data science add-on provides many ML-related packages that can be used to run AI workloads on a...
Managing Kubernetes deployments with Lens Exploring Kubernetes clusters without having to learn kubectl commands is great both for developers just getting started as well as...
Raising timeouts to start Jupyter kernels When a user starts a new kernel, different options determine how much time Jupyter will wait for it to be...
Integrating 3rd Party LDAP clients with bind credentials Bright Cluster Manager provides a managed LDAP database for user and group management but, by default, it is protected with...