Appendix A. Self-Installing Archive (SIA) Reference

Table of Contents

1. SIA Operating Modes
1.1. Full Cluster Installation
1.2. Node Installation
1.3. Frontend Installation
1.4. Installation of Configuration File Editor
1.5. Building RPM Packages Only
1.6. Extraction of Source Archive
2. SIA Options
2.1. Node Specification
2.2. Installation Path Specification
2.3. Installing from Binary RPMs
2.4. Preallocation of Memory - Communication Buffers
2.5. Enforce Installation
2.6. Configuration File Specification
2.7. Batch Mode
2.8. Non-GUI Build Mode
2.9. Software Removal

Dolphin provides the complete software stack as a self-installing archive (SIA). This is a single file that contains the complete source code as well as a setup script that can perform various operations, i.e. compiling, installing and testing the required software on all nodes and the frontend. A short usage information will be displayed when calling the SIA archive with the --help option: