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Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades

Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
  • Netowrking not working -- ifcofig seems ok but ping does not work
  • after MUCH strugging, solution was
    • go to BIOS
    • enable IOMMU
    • restart
    • edit /etc/default grub: change empty quotes in line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"
    • then run
   sudo update-grub

  • Now networking, USB2 and USB3 all work

  • install new drive : 2 TB spare drive
  • this renumbered disks:
  • boot is /dev/sdc
  • spare is /dev/sdb

  • make RAID on sda,sdd,sde,sdf
  • re-format sda1,sdd1,sde1,sdf1 as ext4
  • sudp apt-get install mdadm
 sudo mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdf1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: size set to 2930133504K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
  • Format as follows:
sudo pvcreate /dev/md0
sudo vgcreate PARKING /dev/md0
sudo lvcreate -l100%FREE -n parking PARKING
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/PARKING/parking
sudo mkdir /parking
sudo mount /dev/PARKING/parking /parking
  • mounted OK
  • for debian-type, need to manually edit mdadm.conf as follows (as root)
 mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

  • NOTE
  • tried flag "amd_iommu=on" : USB2 and ethernet still work but no USB3
  • left as iommu=soft

Failing Disk on hades April 13 2015

  • April 11: /var/log/messages showed that /dev/sdd1 was failing
  • error was as follows:
Apr 11 00:23:38 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
Apr 11 00:53:38 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Apr 11 01:23:39 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
...
  • errors indicate that this disk is failing, but not yet dead
  • Replace with new 2 TB disk as follows:

Replacement of failing disk in RAID 5 array

  • Step 1: Identify which disk it is
  • Each disk is labelled with a serial number on the front
  • Get serial number in linux to figure out which is which:
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=02.03B03, SerialNo=WD-WCASY7050076
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdb | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=05.01D05, SerialNo=WD-WMAWP0561880
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdc | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0928093
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdd | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T1328932
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sde | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0906133
    

  • Therefore replace disk with serial number WMC1T1328932

  • Step 2: remove failing disk from array
    • first unmount from exported computers
  • following commands label disk as failed then remove it from array
  499  sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdd1
  500  sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdd1
    • Note: Get email from system that diks has failed:
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on styx.nysbc.org

A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdc1[6] sdf1[5] sdb1[0] sde1[3]
     7814047744 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/4] [UU_UU] 

  • Step 3: Shut dwon computer and physically replace the disk
  • Step 4: Boot up
  • Step 5: add replaced disk to array and rebuild
    sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1
  • Step 6: Array rebuilds automatically -- 12h
  • to watch:
   cat /proc/mdstat

New IP addresses for orpheus and zeus

  • computers moved to control room may 19 2015
  • zeus: 192.168.4.202
  • orpheus: 192.168.4.201
Added:
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Dec 6 2016: Zeus reformatted

  • Carl Negro installed CENTOS6.7 on 500 GB drive on zeus (formerly Win7 Pro, and unused)
  • system set up with LDAP, etc so it is part of the new system
  • hera disks not yet mounted, but backed up on tartarus and on external drive
  • perhaps set these up as RAID1 local array, or even RAID0 fast local scratch
  • installed NVIDIA Quadro card will work for frame alignment, GCTF once NVIDIA drivers and CUDA are installed
 
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Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades

Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
  • Netowrking not working -- ifcofig seems ok but ping does not work
  • after MUCH strugging, solution was
    • go to BIOS
    • enable IOMMU
    • restart
    • edit /etc/default grub: change empty quotes in line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"
    • then run
   sudo update-grub

  • Now networking, USB2 and USB3 all work

  • install new drive : 2 TB spare drive
  • this renumbered disks:
  • boot is /dev/sdc
  • spare is /dev/sdb

  • make RAID on sda,sdd,sde,sdf
  • re-format sda1,sdd1,sde1,sdf1 as ext4
  • sudp apt-get install mdadm
 sudo mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdf1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: size set to 2930133504K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
  • Format as follows:
sudo pvcreate /dev/md0
sudo vgcreate PARKING /dev/md0
sudo lvcreate -l100%FREE -n parking PARKING
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/PARKING/parking
sudo mkdir /parking
sudo mount /dev/PARKING/parking /parking
  • mounted OK
  • for debian-type, need to manually edit mdadm.conf as follows (as root)
 mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

  • NOTE
  • tried flag "amd_iommu=on" : USB2 and ethernet still work but no USB3
  • left as iommu=soft

Failing Disk on hades April 13 2015

  • April 11: /var/log/messages showed that /dev/sdd1 was failing
  • error was as follows:
Apr 11 00:23:38 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
Apr 11 00:53:38 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Apr 11 01:23:39 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
...
  • errors indicate that this disk is failing, but not yet dead
  • Replace with new 2 TB disk as follows:

Replacement of failing disk in RAID 5 array

  • Step 1: Identify which disk it is
  • Each disk is labelled with a serial number on the front
  • Get serial number in linux to figure out which is which:
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=02.03B03, SerialNo=WD-WCASY7050076
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdb | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=05.01D05, SerialNo=WD-WMAWP0561880
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdc | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0928093
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdd | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T1328932
    [rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sde | grep Serial
     Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0906133
    

  • Therefore replace disk with serial number WMC1T1328932

  • Step 2: remove failing disk from array
    • first unmount from exported computers
  • following commands label disk as failed then remove it from array
  499  sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdd1
  500  sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdd1
    • Note: Get email from system that diks has failed:
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on styx.nysbc.org

A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdc1[6] sdf1[5] sdb1[0] sde1[3]
     7814047744 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/4] [UU_UU] 

  • Step 3: Shut dwon computer and physically replace the disk
  • Step 4: Boot up
  • Step 5: add replaced disk to array and rebuild
    sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1
  • Step 6: Array rebuilds automatically -- 12h
  • to watch:
   cat /proc/mdstat
Added:
>
>

New IP addresses for orpheus and zeus

  • computers moved to control room may 19 2015
  • zeus: 192.168.4.202
  • orpheus: 192.168.4.201
 
  • Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 2313 Apr 2015 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades

Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
  • Netowrking not working -- ifcofig seems ok but ping does not work
  • after MUCH strugging, solution was
    • go to BIOS
    • enable IOMMU
    • restart
    • edit /etc/default grub: change empty quotes in line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"
    • then run
   sudo update-grub

  • Now networking, USB2 and USB3 all work

  • install new drive : 2 TB spare drive
  • this renumbered disks:
  • boot is /dev/sdc
  • spare is /dev/sdb

  • make RAID on sda,sdd,sde,sdf
  • re-format sda1,sdd1,sde1,sdf1 as ext4
  • sudp apt-get install mdadm
 sudo mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdf1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: size set to 2930133504K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
  • Format as follows:
sudo pvcreate /dev/md0
sudo vgcreate PARKING /dev/md0
sudo lvcreate -l100%FREE -n parking PARKING
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/PARKING/parking
sudo mkdir /parking
sudo mount /dev/PARKING/parking /parking
  • mounted OK
  • for debian-type, need to manually edit mdadm.conf as follows (as root)
 mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

  • NOTE
  • tried flag "amd_iommu=on" : USB2 and ethernet still work but no USB3
  • left as iommu=soft
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  • April 11: /var/log/messages showed that /dev/sdd1 was failing
  • error was as follows:
Apr 11 00:23:38 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
Apr 11 00:53:38 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Apr 11 01:23:39 styx smartd[2136]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 3 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors 
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  • errors indicate that this disk is failing, but not yet dead
  • Replace with new 2 TB disk as follows:

Replacement of failing disk in RAID 5 array

  • Step 1: Identify which disk it is
  • Each disk is labelled with a serial number on the front
  • Get serial number in linux to figure out which is which:
 
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=02.03B03, SerialNo=WD-WCASY7050076
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdb | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=05.01D05, SerialNo=WD-WMAWP0561880
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdc | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0928093
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdd | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T1328932
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sde | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0906133
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  • Therefore replace disk with serial number WMC1T1328932

  • Step 2: remove failing disk from array
    • first unmount from exported computers
  • following commands label disk as failed then remove it from array
  499  sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sdd1
  500  sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sdd1
 
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    • Note: Get email from system that diks has failed:
This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on styx.nysbc.org

A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdc1[6] sdf1[5] sdb1[0] sde1[3]
     7814047744 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/4] [UU_UU] 

  • Step 3: Shut dwon computer and physically replace the disk
  • Step 4: Boot up
  • Step 5: add replaced disk to array and rebuild
    sudo mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdd1
  • Step 6: Array rebuilds automatically -- 12h
  • to watch:
   cat /proc/mdstat
 
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Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades

Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
  • Netowrking not working -- ifcofig seems ok but ping does not work
  • after MUCH strugging, solution was
    • go to BIOS
    • enable IOMMU
    • restart
    • edit /etc/default grub: change empty quotes in line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"
    • then run
   sudo update-grub

  • Now networking, USB2 and USB3 all work

  • install new drive : 2 TB spare drive
  • this renumbered disks:
  • boot is /dev/sdc
  • spare is /dev/sdb

  • make RAID on sda,sdd,sde,sdf
  • re-format sda1,sdd1,sde1,sdf1 as ext4
  • sudp apt-get install mdadm
 sudo mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdf1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: size set to 2930133504K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
  • Format as follows:
sudo pvcreate /dev/md0
sudo vgcreate PARKING /dev/md0
sudo lvcreate -l100%FREE -n parking PARKING
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/PARKING/parking
sudo mkdir /parking
sudo mount /dev/PARKING/parking /parking
  • mounted OK
  • for debian-type, need to manually edit mdadm.conf as follows (as root)
 mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf

  • NOTE
  • tried flag "amd_iommu=on" : USB2 and ethernet still work but no USB3
  • left as iommu=soft
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[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=02.03B03, SerialNo=WD-WCASY7050076
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdb | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=05.01D05, SerialNo=WD-WMAWP0561880
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdc | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0928093
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sdd | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T1328932
[rice@styx ~]$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sde | grep Serial
 Model=WDC, FwRev=80.00A80, SerialNo=WD-WMC1T0906133
 
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Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades

Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
  • Netowrking not working -- ifcofig seems ok but ping does not work
  • after MUCH strugging, solution was
    • go to BIOS
    • enable IOMMU
    • restart
    • edit /etc/default grub: change empty quotes in line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"
    • then run
Changed:
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  • Now networking, USB2 and USB3 all work

  • install new drive : 2 TB spare drive
  • this renumbered disks:
  • boot is /dev/sdc
  • spare is /dev/sdb

  • make RAID on sda,sdd,sde,sdf
  • re-format sda1,sdd1,sde1,sdf1 as ext4
  • sudp apt-get install mdadm
 sudo mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdf1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: size set to 2930133504K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
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sudo pvcreate /dev/md0
sudo vgcreate PARKING /dev/md0
sudo lvcreate -l100%FREE -n parking PARKING
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/PARKING/parking
sudo mkdir /parking
sudo mount /dev/PARKING/parking /parking
 
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  • for debian-type, need to manually edit mdadm.conf as follows (as root)
 mdadm --examine --scan --config=mdadm.conf >> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
 
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  • NOTE
  • tried flag "amd_iommu=on" : USB2 and ethernet still work but no USB3
  • left as iommu=soft
 
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Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades

Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
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  • Netowrking not working -- ifcofig seems ok but ping does not work
  • after MUCH strugging, solution was
    • go to BIOS
    • enable IOMMU
    • restart
    • edit /etc/default grub: change empty quotes in line to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="iommu=soft"
    • then run
   sudo update grub

  • Now networking, USB2 and USB3 all work

  • install new drive : 2 TB spare drive
  • this renumbered disks:
  • boot is /dev/sdc
  • spare is /dev/sdb

  • make RAID on sda,sdd,sde,sdf
  • re-format sda1,sdd1,sde1,sdf1 as ext4
  • sudp apt-get install mdadm
 sudo mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: layout defaults to n2
mdadm: chunk size defaults to 512K
mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdd1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sde1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: /dev/sdf1 appears to contain an ext2fs file system
    size=-1364702208K  mtime=Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
mdadm: size set to 2930133504K
Continue creating array? y
mdadm: Defaulting to version 1.2 metadata
mdadm: array /dev/md0 started.
 
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Revision 1920 Dec 2014 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades
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Setup new workstation fir rice Dec 2014

* Configuration:

    • AMD FX-6350 six core processor
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 650 W power supply
    • ATI graphics card
    • Crucial MX100 512 GB SSD for OS
    • 4X 3 TB WD Red drives for storage
    • originally bought as dataserver; found performacs = 2X that of current CEM11 (Fabiana's old workstation)
    • Will repurpose cem11 as data server (with Nvidia card) and use new system as my desktop
    • keep paris,cem11data in cem11 computer, keep runnina as headless server
    • to do later: upgrade to CentOS? 6

  • Standard Linux Mint 17.1 install with cinnamon
  • set up 3 TB drives as RAID 1 0
    • format using parted:
   > sudo parted /dev/sdb
   > mklabel gpt
   > mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
   > quit
  • repat for /dev/sdc,/dev/sdd/, /dev/sde

  • Install Linux Mint 17.1 onto 512 GB SDD
 
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Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

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  • yum update -y on oroheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted
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  • yum update -y on orpheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted
 

January 2 2013

Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
Added:
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>
  • install other essential packages as detailed above

preparation of hades RAID5 disk

  • hades: RAID 5 using 5x 2 TB Western Digital drives
  • instructions on making these drives a RAID (hdb,hdc,hdd,hde,hdf)
   > sudo mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sd[bcdef]1
   > watch cat /proc/mdstat  (wait until done, about 450 minutes)
  • mdadm.conf file:
DEVICE /dev/sdf1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=5 metadata=1.2 name=styx.nysbc.org:0 UUID=2d2b02fa:a1970439:77152d3a:7d64280e
   devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1
MAILADDR rice@nysbc.org
  • set up monitoring:
   > sudo chkconfig mdmonitor on
  • make a logical volume, format it and mount it
   > sudo pvcreate /dev/md0     -- creates a physical volume
   > sudo vgvreate HADES /dev/md0   -- creates a volume group on that physical volume
   > sudo lvcreate -L 7.27T -n hades HADES  -- creates a logical volume in that volume group
   > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/HADES/hades   -- makes the filesystem on the logical volume
   > sudo mkdir /hades
   > sudo mount /dev/HADES/hades /hades
  • nfs configured to export /hades
 
  • Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

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META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8

  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on oroheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted
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Setup Styx /computer for storage

  • Put together Intel Core i3 CPU + motherboard + 8 GB RAM + 450W power supply
    • Motherboard: ASUS P8H61-MLE/CSM
    • RAM: 2x 4GB
  • Install one boot drive: 500 GB from Kakoli's old RAID system
  • Install 5X 2TB drives for storage (configure as RAID5; see below)
  • No CD/DVD/floppy

details of system install

  • Install CENTOS 6.3 Minimal from external USB DVD drive
  • network configured manually as described above
  • yum update -y
  • reboot
 
  • Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 1626 Nov 2012 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software

desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:

[Desktop]
Session=kde
Language=en_US.utf8
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  • needed to install 32-bit libraries to get web to work:
    • libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.i686
    • libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.i686
    • libXtst-1.0.99.2-3.el6.i686
    • libXp-1.0.0-15.1.el6.i686
 

November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on oroheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted

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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 1526 Nov 2012 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software
Added:
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desktop details

  • switchdesk, used to switch between gnome, kde, and others is no longer available
  • attempts to make this available by making /etc/sysconfig/desktop did not work
  • in home directory, make the file ~/.dmrc as follows:
 
Added:
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[Desktop] Session=kde Language=en_US.utf8
 
Added:
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November 26 2012

  • yum update -y on oroheus, installed latest Nvidia driver, and rebooted
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META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit
Added:
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      • yum groupinstall "Graphical Administration Tools" -- gui to admin tasks
      • now can use gpk-application to install required software
 

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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 1320 Nov 2012 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus

March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible
Added:
>
>

November 2012

Setting up new Hp 620z workstation

  • system
    • two six-core Xeon processors (12 cores total)
    • 32 GB RAM (4* 8 GB; system came with 6*2 GB but this is incompatible; there are 8 slots still free for a max of 96 GB RAM)
    • 500 GB HD with Windows 7-64 pro installed; 3 extra disks Western Digital 2GB Black 7200rpm
    • NVidia Quadro 2000 GPU (192 CUDA cores)
  • hardware setup
    • Installed RAM and GPU; boots windows
    • only 2 bays left for the 3 drives; need to convert one 5.25" bay to 3.5"; adapter on order (Nov 20)
    • Attempted to install all RAM simultaneously -- no boot. Removing origina RAM allowed boot.
  • linux install
    • Choosing CentOS? 6.3 as a modern system
    • system could not boot from DVD: has EFI instead of old-style BIOS
    • therefore had to choose install from Centos6.3-64 EFI minimal CD

linux install details

       DEVICE="eth0"
      HWADDR=specifc mac address
      NM_CONTROLLED="no"
      ONBOOT="yes"
      BOOTPROTO="static"
      IPADDR=ip address here.
      NETMASK=netmask here.
    • /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/resolv.conf left unchanged (resol.conf was a 0 length file)
    • restart network
      /etc/init.d/network restart
  • install some packages
    • yum install kdebase.x86_64 -- get some graphics at least
    • yum install firefox -- get a browser
    • yum install xorg-x11-server-xorg.X86_64 - - get startx to work
    • yum install xorg-x11-xinit-session-1.09-13.el6.x86-64 --
    • sudo nano vim wget system-config-network-tui kernel-headers make gcc ntp tcsh emacs kernel-devel
    • install Nvidia driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-310.19.run
      • problem: complains about Nouveau kernel driver. Alllowed it to disable this.
      • to undo this, need to delete /etd/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveu.conf
      • reboot and try again
      • still enabled!
      • yum update -y
      • edit /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf anmd append rdblacklist=nouveau to kernal boot command to disable
      • reboot. /sbin/lsmod | grep nouveau indicates that it was not loaded
      • install NVIDIA module and run startx. success!
      • edit /sbin/inittab to make level 5 the default boot
        • konsole terminal seems messed up a bit

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META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus
Added:
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March 2012

  • March 14
    • Set up Ed's PC - Centos5
    • install php mrc tools:
      • copied source from cronus (/usr/include/php/ext/mrc) and unzipped in identical location
      • downloaded FFTW2 library source (NOT FFTW3 as is mention in docs) and installed:
      ./configure --enable-float --enable-type-prefix --enable-shared
      make
      make install
      • libs were put in /usr/local/lib, however, they are 64-bit libraries so made links in /usr/local/lib64/
      • compiled without error however fft power spectrum was invisible

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META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local
Added:
>
>

December 2011

  • Agamemnon: menelaus drive moved from /dev/sda5 to /cem03_bigdata_backup
    • menelaus now has lots of space, and root partition can be expanded to take over all of /dev/sda
  • Nicolas, Mariena,Ralph PC's are backed up to /hector

January 2012

  • Jan 3
    • New PC set up: rhea (one of the old Win2000 Dell PC's)
    • purpose is to
      1. act as a spare workstation
      2. drive added - hades, which is exported onto windows drives using samba.
      3. EM users who want to copy onto USB flash disks the same day can do safely so via this PC
  • Jan 16
    • Priam: mounted former /cemo2_bigdatabackup as /paris (1.4 TB drive)
    • /paris exported and mounted on eurydice, agamemnon, minotaur,cem11
    • /paris set up to be backed up daily on tartarus
    • Agamemnon : root partiton resized to 230 GB, from 30
      • root was very full (2Gb free), so expanded ino space formerly used by menelaus
 
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Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
Added:
>
>
  • Zeiss Windows 2000PC -- removed Norton antivirus
    • disk nearly 100% full -- this saved 1 GB of space
    • computer is isolated from web, so viruses should not be a problem
 

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
Changed:
<
<
    • ext4 format
>
>
      • "mkpart ext4 1 -1" --> makes a single partiton using all of disk space, named it ext4
Added:
>
>
    • xfs format (ext4 currently has 16TB maximum size)
 
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

Added:
>
>
  • Aug 23
    • installed gromus on agamemnon
      • required installation of fftw3 libraries in /usr/local
 
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Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using

May 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20

  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)
Added:
>
>

July 2011

  • update priam to CENTOS5
    • repalced root drive with 500GB drive
    • root partition 100GB
    • hector partition 350 GB
    • memory upgraded to 12GB
    • new GPU installed from cem11 (Ruben's) so GPU can be used for calculations (CUDA)
 
Changed:
<
<
>
>

August 2011

  • Aug 17-19 --
Added:
>
>
  • update temimps2twiki.py on athena -- now downloads all attachments (ppt,pdf,zip,...)
  • now uses BeautifulSoup? to do most searching
    • need to update twiki script to do the same
  • Aug 24 -- set up backup server tartarus:
    • running CENTOS 6
    • partitioned backup partiton 23.9 TB (RAID5) with GPT (parted)
    • ext4 format
    • mount as /pithos/
    • installed rdiff-backup:
      • needed to enable rpmforge repository
      • installed yum-priorities -- put CentOS? priorities at 1, rpmforge at 10 to prevent rpmforge from overtaking centos
      • no repository for rdiff backup: installation required manually installing
        • pylibacl-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • pyxattr-0.5.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
        • gcc using yum
        • python-devel using yum
        • librsync-devel using yum
        • then needed to manually install and compile rdiff-backup-1.2.8 (rpm did not work)
        • installed in /usr/local/

 
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Revision 827 May 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using
Changed:
<
<

April 2011

>
>

May 2011

 
  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20
Added:
>
>
  • May 26 2011
  • testing of 32-bit helix programs in kubuntu 9 (lab laptop) to see which need recompiling: listing of progs which do not work
    • divctf-working-2006 (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxavg (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • hlxresidual.pyc (should not be included -- need hlxresidual.py instead)
    • maskparam (ELF class 64 shared library)
    • plotphase (ELF class 64 shared library)
 

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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 724 May 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
    • DONE 04-27-11

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day

  • April 27 2011
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using
Added:
>
>

April 2011

  • May 24 2011
    • updated imod on /cryoem to IMOD 4.1.10
    • installed SerialEM 3 on Tecnai F20
 
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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 628 Apr 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break
Added:
>
>
    • DONE 04-27-11
 
  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day
Changed:
<
<
>
>
  • April 27 2011
Added:
>
>
    • updated hostname of cem100 to athena
    • remounted cem100/data as athena/data on cronus,priam,agamemnon,minotaur
    • ensured that hosts file is updated
    • updated hosts file on jeol1230 computer -- cem100 is now athena
    • updated sinedon.cfg on j1230 and minotaur -- now has athena as db host
    • todo -- fix mounting of cem100 as athena on j1230 -- ckim is using
 
  • Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 521 Apr 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???

  • April 20 2011
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version
Added:
>
>
  • April 21 2011
    • Checked Tecnai F20 computer (Win 2000)
      • 19 GB used out of 34 GB
      • deleted ~3 GB of images from old tests
      • deleted empty folders for several users who are no longer here
      • deleted serialem links for users who are no longer here
      • shortcut to feispy and teispy found in trash; restored to desktop
      • Current disk usage =~ 16 GB, just under 50% capacity
      • TODO -- install internal drive temporarily for backup. Do on maintenance day
 

  • Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 420 Apr 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???
Changed:
<
<
  • April 20 2010
>
>
  • April 20 2011
 
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version

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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 320 Apr 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???
Added:
>
>
  • April 20 2010
    • updated IMOD to IMOD 4.1.9 (current version) on /cryoem
      • /cryoem/IMOD now refers to this version
      • /cryoem/IMOD3 referes to imod 3.13
      • updated .cshrc fil on orpheus, agamemnon, minotaur to reflect this
      • note that priam (centos4) will likely not run this version
 

  • Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW =

-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

Revision 212 Apr 2011 - Main.BillRice

 
META TOPICPARENT name="CemITSystem"
Contents

Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
Added:
>
>
  • change backup scripts to reflect these changes
 
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link
Added:
>
>
    • finish renaming, after backup server installed and running
      • rename cem02bigdata_backup to paris
      • rename cem03bigdata_backup to odysseus
      • find use for external USB RAID on minotaur, since it will no longer be used for backup. Kens data???
 

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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

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Administration logs

Jan 2011

  • Set up and installed new computer, cem15
  • CentOS? 5.5, RAID5, 5.2 TB disk
  • All standard EM software installed
  • cem15data drive is nfs shared and exported
  • users added on ad hoc basis

April 2011

  • April 7 2011
    • back up svn server from cem100 and move to cem01
    • cem01 now running svn server (current revision=48) and apache server
    • made very basic web page for cem01 which links to svn repos as well as sesame

  • April 8 2011 -- rename computers as follows
    • cem15 --> orpheus
    • cem01 -->cronus
    • cem02 --> priam
    • cem03 --> agamemnon
    • cem11 --> tlaloc
    • cem12 --> minotaur
  • made new hosts file listing these changes, and uploaded to svn server

  • TO DO
    • rename cem100 to athena -- this will be done after the 2dx meeting at nysbc, so thigns will not break

  • April 10 2011
    • copy all of Kens' data from Tecnai to external hard drive
    • delete original copy of tomograms from Tecnai hard drive, leaving only navigator maps

  • April 11 2011 -- rename drives as follows:
    • cem02bigdata --> helen
    • cem02data --> hector
    • cem02data2 --> hecuba
    • cem03bigdata --> achilles
    • cem03data --> menelaus
    • cem03data2 --> iphigenia
    • cem11data --> tonatiu
    • cem12data --> theseus
    • cem15data --> eurydice
  • exported and mounted all newly named drives
  • updated hosts file on jeol1230 pc to reflect these changes
  • found problem with leginon not talking to jerol1230 from minotaur (cem12) after change
    • fixed by replacing minotaur entry with minotaur.nysbc.org in cd:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
    • verified that leginon is still working directly on jeol1230 and remotely from minotaur

  • links made to old drive names
  • cronus (cem01) now viewable from outside as cronus.nysbc.org
    • verified by browsing cronus.nysbc.org from public network
  • TO DO
    • rename dl380 to arachne, and make link

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-- BillRice - 12 Apr 2011

 
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