PAR Technologies PARASTATION5 V5 - Manual (Page 11)

Installation via RPM packages
ParaStation5 Administrator's Guide 7
man
contains the manual pages describing the ParaStation daemons, utilities and configuration files after
installing the documentation package. The necessary steps are described in Section 3.4, “Installing
the documentation”.
In order to enable the users to access these pages using the man(1) command, please consult the
corresponding documentation
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mpi2, mpi2-intel, mpi2-pgi, mpi2-psc
contains an adapted version of MPIch2 after installing one of the various psmpi2 RPM files. The
necessary steps are described in Section 3.5, “Installing MPI”.
Especially the sub-directories mpich/bin , mpich-intel/bin , etc, contain all the commands to run
(mpirun) and compile (mpicc, mpif90, ...) parallel tasks.
All ParaStation5 specific kernel modules are located within the directory /lib/modules/
kernel release/kernel/drivers/net/ps4 .
3.3. Installation via RPM packages
The recommended way to install ParaStation5 is the installation of packages using the rpm command. This
is the preferred method on all SuSE or Red Hat based systems.
Getting the ParaStation5 RPM packages
Packages containing the different parts of the ParaStation5 system can be obtained from the download
section of the ParaStation homepage.
At least two packages are needed, one containing the management part, the other one providing the
communication part of the ParaStation5 system. Beside this core system, packages supplying MPIch
for GNU, Intel, Portland Group and Pathscale compilers are available. A documentation package is also
obtainable.
The full names of the RPM files follow a simple structure:
name-x.y.z-n.arch.rpm
where name denotes the name and thus the content of the packet, x.y.z describes the version number,
n the build number and arch is the architecture, i.e. one of i586 , ia64 , x86_64 , ppc or noarch . The
latter is used e.g. for the documentation packet.
The package called psmgmt holds the management part of ParaStation. This package is required for any
installation of the ParaStation5 system, independent of the underlying communication platform.
The communication libraries and modules for ParaStation5 come with the pscom package. As explained,
all filenames are followed by an individual version number, the build date and the architecture.
The versions available on the ParaStation homepage at a time are tested to work properly together.
It's recommended to install always the corresponding package versions. If only a part of the installation
should be updated (i.e. only the management part while keeping the communication part untouched)
the corresponding release notes should be consulted in order to verify that the intended combination is
supported.
The release notes of the different packages will either be found within the installation directory /opt/
parastation or on the download section of the ParaStation homepage.
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Usually this is either done by modifying the MANPATH environment variable or by editing the manpath(1) configuration file, which
is /etc/manpath.config by default.