Setting up GridGain-1.5.1

Agya Adueni

Hardware

The machine featured in this tutorial is a Dell Dimension 8200 with 512mb of RAM and a P4 1.8GHz processor.

It ran Fedora Core 6

Prerequisites

Java 1.5 or later should be installed. It can be obtained from http://java.sun.com/javase/6/

Download a copy of the gridgain installation. It can be found at http://www.gridgain.com/past_downloads.html

For this presentation, the gridgain installation is located in /opt.

Getting Started Change directory

into the /opt folder

Add execute permissions to the GridGain installation

Run the GridGain installation

GridGain welcome screen. Click Next

Accept the agreement

Choose installation folder

Installing …

Done!! Well, not quite yet

Point to the location of the internet browser executable on your system

Running GridGain node Change directories

to the installed GridGain application

Go into the bin folder

Environment Variables GridGain needs two

environment variables to be set. GRIDGAIN_HOME and JAVA_HOME. Open up an editor to the file /etc/profile

Add the highlighted lines (these must match the locations of your java installation and gridgain installation) to the file.

Run GridGain Run GridGain

Oops! This was caused by the local firewall

Disable Firewall Run the highlighted

command to disable the firewall

Results

Run Gridgain… again Try running the node

again

Success!!! You have

successfully installed GridGain-1.5.1

Congratulations!!!