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Windows Cluster RCWINCLU.PARTNERS.ORG Access Windows Cluster RCWINCLU from your own windows machine Intro: There are TWO approaches that you can use in order to submit your computing jobs to the windows cluster in our current PHS environment. The first one is that you need to remote logon to one of our powerful windows boxes named hpcwin.research.partners.org (referred as HPCWIN) with your partners ID. Then you develop apps over there, and submit your computing work to the windows cluster from there. The second approach is that you setup your own HPC client environment in your own lab computers, and use the windows cluster directly from your working environment. The advantage of the second approach is that you can interact with backend windows HPC directly, distribute computing work directly to the system and allocate and present results on your client machine (the network between the two might cause some problems, however, we have other resources specifically for retrieving remote graphics, please contact us for details if interested). Here are the detail steps of setting up windows cluster client environment in your own lab. Please feel free to contact ERIS system admin for assistance 1> If you do not have a Partners ID, please contact Partners Healthcare IS to get your Partners ID . Once you are ready to use the windows cluster, please email us, and we will add your partners ID as a user account for the windows cluster. 2> Define your client machine. Here are several hostnames I recommend you to use “xxxlab-1”, “xxxlab-2” … (xxx is your PI’ lastname abbreviation). After you decided the name, email us . We will register those hostnames into the Partners domain. ONLY after it joins the Partners domain, can this machine work with the windows cluster and submit/monitor jobs. If you want to use a laptop and work from home, you need to have a Partners VPN account ready in order to access PHS network. 3> Please have one of the following systems installed in your client machine a. Windows XP with service Pack 2 b. Or, Windows Vista c. Or, Windows server 2003 4> We need to access your client machine and make the machine join the PHS domain. This is what we will do on your computer: Change your computer name to one of the names that you have decided in Step <2>, join the domain by going to System Properties? Computer Name/Domain Changes ? type the computer name for “computer name” and “partners.org” for “member of domain”. We can either do it through Remote Desktop Session or through MSN live meeting , or we can visit your lab to do it. (The reason we have to this is because only an authorized IS member can complete this procedure). 5> After your computer joins the domain, please go to \\rcwinclu\Share\public\HPC_Pack_2008_RC1 and download the entire folder; After you download and install it, follow the steps and choose “ HPC Pack client utility”. When it finishes, you will have “HPC Job Manager” in your “Programs” list and have a folder “C:\program files\Microsoft HPC Pack” 6> When you start “HPC Job Manager”, it will ask you the location of remote head node, type “rcwinclu.partners.org” as the remote head node. After a few seconds, your job manager will successfully start its working environment. Please contact Jerry Xu or Dennis Gurgul for more instructions on submitting jobs. Here are some documentations available \\rcwinclu\share\public\windowsHPC_doc . click here to know about how to access windows cluster from ERIS server ! |
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