Gridengine

This project is now also on the Open Build Service. There you also find rpms for openSUSE (Leap, Tumbleweed), SLES and CentOS.

This repository contains a fork of the Son of Grid Engine project in conjunction with some documentation and fixes to get the gridengine working on more recent Linux systems.

Install

First you need to build the source or use the binary packages from the Open Build Service.

I only tested openSUSE Leap 15.1 manually. If you manage to get the things running on any other platform, please let me know!

openSUSE Leap

openSUSE Leap 15.1

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ph03nix:gridengine/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/home:ph03nix:gridengine.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install gridengine

openSUSE Leap 15.2

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ph03nix:gridengine/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/home:ph03nix:gridengine.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install gridengine

SLE 15

SLE 15 SP1

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ph03nix:gridengine/SLE_15_SP1/home:ph03nix:gridengine.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install gridengine

SLE 15

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ph03nix:gridengine/SLE_15/home:ph03nix:gridengine.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install gridengine

CentOS 7

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ph03nix:gridengine/CentOS_7/home:ph03nix:gridengine.repo
yum install gridengine

Scientific Linux 7

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:ph03nix:gridengine/ScientificLinux_7/home:ph03nix:gridengine.repo
yum install gridengine

Building yourself

Before building make sure you are relaxed and your cup of coffee (or filling of your choice) is full and well temperated.

Then take a deep breath and be prepared for turbulence.

In general the build process consists of the following steps

• Build the dependency tool and create dependencies with aimk
• Compile with aimk

The suggested (working) build options are: aimk -no-herd -nosecure -no-java

Open Build Service

The included spec file gridengine.spec is meant for use with then SUSE open build service.

openSUSE 15.0/15.1 LEAP

This setup works with openSUSE LEAP 15.0 and 15.1

Install the requirements

# zypper install gcc java-1_8_0-openjdk java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel javacc junit ant automake hwloc-devel libopenssl-devel libdb-4_8-devel pam-devel libXt-devel motif-devel xorg-x11-devel

## Notes: * for the openjdk you can also use a more recent version
##        * The version libopenssl-1_0_0-devel is required and needs to uninstall the (by default) installed version 1.1

Prepare the environment by executing the bootstrap.sh script

$ cd sge-8.1.9/source
$ ./scripts/bootstrap.sh -no-secure

Then build the SGE using

# ./aimk -no-herd -nosecure -no-java

The build process takes some time. The generated binaries are (in my case) in the LINUXAMD64 folder in sources

Now install the binaries to SGE_ROOT:

# export SGE_ROOT="/opt/sge/"   ## Or whereever you want to install the grid engine to
# mkdir /opt/sge/ ## create target directory
# scripts/distinst -local -allall -noexit ## asks for confirmation
# cd $SGE_ROOT
# ./inst_sge -m -x -csp

As of now, the gui_installer does not work, as we do not have the izPack Package included.

Done

CentOS 7 (1810)

Instructions updated on 18.01.2019

IMPORTANT: Please build the SGE not under root! I encountered some cryptic linker errors as root, that disappeared when building as unprivileged user. Also ... (shame on me!) you should never build as root anyways ...

Install Requirements with

# yum install csh java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel gcc ant automake hwloc-devel openssl-devel libdb-devel pam-devel libXt-devel motif-devel ncurses-libs ncurses-devel

Then, as unprivileged user, go into a tmux or screen session and start the building process with

$ cd sge-8.1.9/source
$ ./scripts/bootstrap.sh

$ ./aimk -no-herd -no-java
## No HADOOP support and no Java support
## Note Java is not needed for qmon!

If you encounter some cryptic linker errors (undefined reference to tputs, tgoto, ecc.) make sure you build as unprivileged user!

The build process takes some time. The generated binaries are (in my case) in the LINUXAMD64 folder in sources

Now install the binaries to SGE_ROOT:

# export SGE_ROOT="/opt/sge/"   ## Or whereever you want to install the grid engine to
# mkdir /opt/sge/ ## create target directory
# scripts/distinst -local -allall -noexit ## asks for confirmation
# cd $SGE_ROOT
# ./inst_sge -m -x -csp  ## or run '# ./start_gui_installer'

Done.

Build with Java

For the graphical installer, you need to run aimk with java support. For that you will need the following additional dependencies

# yum install ant-junit junit javacc

Then building should work with

$ ./scripts/bootstrap.sh
$ ./aimk -no-herd

If you get Java version errors, please adjust build.properties for your needs.

Firewall

In order to make SGE run, you will need to open the following ports

firewall-cmd --add-port=992/udp --permanent
firewall-cmd --add-port=6444/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --add-port=6445/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

Configuration

Important: Make sure, your local hostname is present int /etc/hosts, otherwise you run into problems during the installation.

OpenMPI

In case you want to use OpenMPI, make sure to compile OpenMPI with --with-sge support.

In case you are using Spack, compile OpenMPI with schedulers="sge" on

spack install openmpi%gcc@8.2.0 schedulers="sge"

You will also need to set control_slaves and job_is_first_task to true

$ qconf -sp openmpi
pe_name            openmpi
slots              1024
user_lists         NONE
xuser_lists        NONE
start_proc_args    NONE
stop_proc_args     NONE
allocation_rule    $fill_up
control_slaves     TRUE
job_is_first_task  TRUE
urgency_slots      min
accounting_summary FALSE
qsort_args         NONE

Known issues

storage size of ‘w’ isn’t known

../sh.proc.c:153:16: error: storage size of ‘w’ isn’t known
     union wait w;

This error was the whole reason for forking the repository. Comment out line 51 in ``sge-8.1.9/source/3rdparty/qtcsh/sh.proc.c` as follows:

50: #if defined(_BSD) || (defined(IRIS4D) && __STDC__) || defined(__lucid) || defined(linux) || defined(__GNU__) || defined(__GLIBC__)
51: //# define BSDWAIT
52: #endif /* _BSD || (IRIS4D && __STDC__) || __lucid || glibc */

Linker errors: undefined reference to tputs, tgoto, ecc.

I encountered this error when building as root. Try building as unprivileged user (which you should do anyways!)

Java version errors

Some weird java version not supported errors occurred to me, when building on OpenSuSE 15 LEAP. Edit the file build.properties and put there a more recent Java version like

# sge-8.1.9/source/build.properties
javac.debug=true
javac.deprecated=true
default.sge.javac.source=1.6
default.sge.javac.target=1.6
jgdi.javac.source=1.6
jgdi.javac.target=1.6
jjsv.javac.source=1.6
jjsv.javac.target=1.6
hadoop.javac.source=1.6
hadoop.javac.target=1.6

That should fix the issue.

Hostname-related issues

Symptoms for this issue are or that the qmaster script doesn't start in the installation routine, or you get errors like

error resolving local host: can't resolve host name (h_errno = HOST_NOT_FOUND)

Another symptom are errors related to act_qmaster.

Solution

Make sure, your hostname resolved to your local IP and vice-versa by editing your /etc/hosts accordingly

Example (Assuming your hostname is masternode.gridengine.whatever)

## /etc/hosts

[...]
# IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
#
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.0.100   masternode.gridengine.whatever