Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of QuickStart

Timestamp:

01/31/12 13:10:44 (13 years ago)

Author:

ajaworski

Comment:

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QuickStart

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+= Quickstart =
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+== Hardware ==
+
+=== Installing monitors on the stands ===
+
+Requirements for a single team:
+* two ladders,
+* 2 10mm wrenches,
+* 17mm wrench,
+* 2 4mm or 5mm (!!!need to check!!!) hex key or torx,
+* phillips screwdriver,
+* 3 people.
+Overall requirements:
+* 5 people
+Setup is simple and can be parallelised up to four teams, because there are four seperate stands.
+5 people are required to put higher part of a stand on top of lower part.
+It is important to put shelves on the pillars of lower and upper parts before inserting the upper part on top of lower part.
+
+=== Connecting power and DVI cables to each monitor ===
+
+Requirements for a single team:
+* proper DVI cables,
+* proper power cables,
+* ladder,
+* 1 person.
+
+Each monitor has its unique id, which consists of two numbers - first is on X axis, second on Y axis.
+X axis values increase from left to right and Y axis values increase from bottom to top (as in first quarter of Cartesian coordinate system).
+Both of them range from 0 to 7.
+Each DVI and power cable is labeled on both ends with monitor id it should be connected to, therefore before connecting a cable it should be checked whether the cable belongs to specified monitor.
+When both cables are connected they should be lead through holes in each shelf.
+Power cables can be plugged to an empty power socket on the stand base immediately.
+
+Again, this job can be parallelised to four or even more teams.
+
+=== Connecting DVI cables to GPUs ===
+
+Requirements:
+* connection diagram,
+* proper DVI to DP adapters,
+* DP to miniDP adapters,
+* 1 person.
+
+Each monitor needs to be connected to the specific GPU port (according to connection diagram) using proper adapter.
+Adapters can be passive or active.
+Each GPU can have 4 active and 2 passive adapters connected (6 miniDP cards) or 4 active adapters (4 DP and 2 DVI cards).
+Passive adapters in 6 miniDP cards need to be connected to first two ports counting from Motherboard (DFP-6 and DFP-5).
+
+This job can be parallelised according to the number of computers.
+
+== Software ==
+
+=== System installation ===
+
+Currently used operating system on tile machines is Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS due to problems with fibre network cards on newer versions.
+Installation of the system is normal, Ubuntu installation.
+
+=== Network setup ===
+
+Each tile computer should have specific address tied to network interface it uses to connect with access machine.
+Currently, addresses from 192.168.80.0/24 network are used. First address (192.168.80.1) is used by access machine.
+Tile computers have addresses in form 192.168.80.{10+tile_number}, where tile_number starts from 0.
+Addresses can be assigned staticly using /etc/network/interfaces file.
+Each tile computer should also have the hostname set to SAGE-tile{tile_number} and access computer to SAGE-access for easier access.
+As there is no DNS server running, hostnames should be assigned to IPs using /etc/hosts file on each machine.
+
+=== Xorg setup ===
+
+Each GPU needs to run a seperate Xorg Screen containing 6 monitors.
+Sample xorg.conf file can be found in the repository.
+
+=== Environment configuration ===
+See:
+* [[SageInstallation|SAGE]]
+* [[EqualizerInstallation|Equalizer]]