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
in Hours or days

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 / maui

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

 

Copy Jun data for test

2 days

.5 wk

 

Jun (and group) test & tweak

2 days

1 week


Cleanup / additional

2 days

.5 wk

 

Move old cluster nodes to new Cluster
Keep the old head node for 1 month?

1 day

.2 wk

 

Move old cluster user data to new cluster
(Collum group down time)

2 - 3 days

.5 week

 

Total

25 days

6.4 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).