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The SBGrid Software Suite can be installed on a single computer at your site and shared via a network filesystem (NFS) with the workstations or compute nodes on your network.
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We refer to this computer as the site "master" server.
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-The master server will require at least 1Tb of free disk space, case-sensitive file system strongly recommended. This machine and must run some variety of UNIX (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, etc).
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+The master server will require at least 2Tb of free disk space, case-sensitive file system strongly recommended. This machine and must run some variety of UNIX (Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, etc).
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The installation script will download the software branches you select, and install a cron job that will run regularly to check for updates.
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Software installation and update are initiated from your local server at your site and downloaded from our servers.
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http is used to query our servers to check for update, and rsync is used to download the updates. Outbound HTTP, and RSYNC is necessary.
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-NOTE - for Linux and macOS, the `sbgrid-cli` utility can be used to install and manage an installation. This approach has a number of benefits over the script-based install here.
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-[See the sbgrid-cli recommened installation page for more information](sbgrid-cli-admin)
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+NOTE - for Linux and macOS, the `sbgrid-cli` utility can be used to install and manage an installation. This approach has a number of benefits over the script-based install and is available for Linux and macOS only. [See the sbgrid-cli recommened installation page for more information](sbgrid-cli-admin)
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![NFS-based installation](images/site_diagram.png "NFS-based installation")
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## Pre-Installation
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-| Installation Requirements | |
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-| Hard Drive Space | ~1 Tb recommended for full installation |
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-| Operating System | Linux, OS X and other UNIX |
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-| Privileges | Root account (Linux) or Administrator account (Mac) |
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-| network | Outbound http, rsync (ports 80 and 873, 8080) |
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+| Installation Requirements | |
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+| Hard Drive Space | ~2 Tb recommended for full installation (all titles and versions for mac & linux |
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+| Operating System | Linux, macOS / OS X |
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+| Privileges | Administrator account needed only to create install path (/programs) |
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+| Network | Outbound https, rsync (ports 443 and 873 or 8080) |
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### Approximate size per Branch
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-| Branch | size |
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-| i386-mac | ~400 Gb |
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-| x86_64-linux | ~600 Gb |
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-| shared files | ~40 Gb |
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+| i386-mac | ~500 Gb |
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+| x86_64-linux | ~1 Tb |
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+| shared files | ~30 Gb |
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[Size breakdown of titles in a typical installation](size_graph)
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## SGI IRIX Software Branch
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-Since the IRIX software branch is frozen and no longer receiving updates, it is not installed and updated in the same manner as the active software branches. In order to install the IRIX software branch, please run: `./sbgrid-admin -s`
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-Note that the IRIX branch is only compatible with _tcsh_; there is no sh-compatible configuration for this branch.
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+Since the IRIX software branch is frozen and no longer receiving updates, it is not installed and updated in the same manner as the active software branches. If you would like access to SGI IRIX softare, please let us know at bugs@sbgrid.org. Also note that the IRIX branch is only compatible with _tcsh_; there is no sh-compatible configuration for this branch.