[auton-users] LOU1 back on-line

[predragp at andrew.cmu.edu]

After almost a month LOU1 is fixed and back in business. The good
news is that I refreshed this computing node with the latest version
of RedHat 6.5. R-0.2, Python 2.7.3, MATLAB 2013b Perl 5.10 and all
other good stuff. Consider this deployment beta version. I am sure
that machine still have lots of  rough edges. There is no scratch
directory yet as I have not mounted second HDD.

I have a semi-working ansible server so computing nodes LOV3, LOV4, LOU1
as well as NAVY computing nodes LXV1, LXV2 are pretty much now in sync
software wise.

Unfortunately in the past 20 minutes MATLAB license manager have
crashed several times on LOU1. I will not look into it before Monday.

Machine is not well monitored at this time and I have no plans to plug
things into the status page and Ganglia server. I have in works a
complete monitoring solution Zabbix which will be made available to
all Auton affiliates.


Lastly this is preliminary announcement that in the very near future
all computing nodes will be available via GUI at least from the
Auton internal network. I am using NX X server
to access VBox on LOU1 already. Unfortunately the free version of
proprietary NX X server which is installed allows only for two
concurrent sessions. I will soon test OpenNX server version.
In order for uses to have GUI access to this computing nodes from
home I have to rebuild our OpenVPN sever and then give secure
OpenVPN access to each individual desktop/laptop which will be used
for GUI access from home.

Happy Holidays to All!
Predrag