Chapter 3: Deploying Sun Grid Engine (SGE)

Unpacking the SGE distribution

After downloading the tarballs create a directory that will serve as the SGE directory. You can do this as the root user:

[root@nodeC ~]# mkdir -p /opt/sge-root

Change into that directory:

[root@nodeC sge-root]# cd /opt/sge-root/

Now run the following commands as user root to unpack the tarballs into the directory you created. Change the path to the tarballs as is necessary:

[root@nodeC sge-root]# gzip -dc /root/sge-6.0u7-common.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

[root@nodeC sge-root]# gzip -dc /root/sge-6.0u7_1-bin-lx24-x86.tar.gz | tar xvpf -

Next you need to set the environment variable SGE_ROOT to point to the directory you created and into which you unpacked the tarballs:

[root@nodeC sge-root]# export SGE_ROOT=/opt/sge-root