Installing Ganglia on Standalone or Cluster

Good Readup on How to Install Ganglia on Clusters or Standalone Machine. Taken from I do linux blog, an excellent resource.

1. Ganglia Cluster Monitoring Made Easy by Idolinux.blogspot.com
2. Ganglia Howto by IBM
3. Ganglia Documentation by SourceForge.Net

libXp.so.6 error in MATLAB

If you encounter "...... error while loading shared libraries: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory..." when installing MATLAB on CentOS 5, \\.

To solve the problem:

# yum install libXp libXp-devel

Installing Linux Mint 7 on HP 6930p Elitebook

Installing Linux Mint 7 on HP 6930p is a breeze for the most essential part. More importantly, the Distro was able to detect the ethernet and wireless.

Radeon HD 3xxx driver however needs to be installed seperately. Just download the driver for linux from http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.5&lang=English

However, the speakers is not working although the earphone only. The resolution of the problem can be at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269027

1. Finding out what type of soundcard
   cat /proc/asound/cards
   0 [Intel ]:
   HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
   HDA Intel at 0x98900000 irq 17
   
2. Finding out the codec-type
   head -n 1 /proc/asound/card0/codec*
   ==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 <== Codec: Analog Devices AD1984A ==> /proc/asound/card0/codec#1 <== Codec: LSI ID 1040
3. With the information above, searching for the soundchip
   zless /usr/share/doc/alsa-base/driver/ALSA-Configuration.txt.gz
   
4. Editing "/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base" and adding
   snd-hda-intel model=mobile
   
5. Editing "/etc/modprobe.d/options" and adding
   snd-hda-intel model=mobile
   
6. 6.reboot

Installing xCAT on Compute Nodes

Some Possible Error faced:

Error: Interface setup failed: pumpSetupInterface failed.

Solution (Due to wrong or missing drivers used in the genimage):

1. cd /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/centos
2. ./genimage -i eth0 -n tg3,e1000,bnx2 -o centos5.2 -p compute

IBM - Install and configure General Parallel File System (GPFS) on xSeries

IBM - Install and configure General Parallel File System (GPFS) on xSeries is a good intermediate article on how to install GPFS on X Series