Upgrade to CentOS and add 2 nodes to existing

Time and labor estimates

Start-to-finish time (taking into account availability): ~5 weeks (start 7/31, Wed)

Est. labor: ~110 hours for Lulu, plus Michael's hours for networking, hardware configuration, consultation, etc.

Work descriptions

Effort
(usually hours; 1 day = 6 hours @ 75%)
Lulu, unless otherwise indicated

Elapse time
(usually days or weeks)

Est. date

Install and config CentOS on headnode
(Use Node 2)

3 days

1 week

 

Install and config Warewulf
Includes attaching one (new) node

5 days

1 week

 

Install and config Torque

2 days

.5 wk

 

Install and config WebMO

5 days

1 week

 

Install and config 2nd (new) node
and 3rd (old) node.

1 day

.2 week

 

Jun et al. test & tweak

2 days

1 week

End of August

Cleanup / additional

 

 

 

Total

18 days

5.7 weeks

 

Plan

See above work descriptions for detailed steps.

Overview plan:

Risks

And possible ways to address them.

Gaussian needs to be recompiled (under new OS).

WebMO needs to be upgraded from 2010 version. Perhaps a good idea to do anyway, if "good reasons" are identified.

Node 2 turns out to be a dud (fails or is unstable).