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Cortex is a computation rack for VisLab humanoid robots.  
Cortex is a server used by VisLab for running simulations (not the ones with the iCub robot).


''Old information can be consulted at [[Cortex/Archive]].''


= Specifications =


= The Network =
As of 2017, there is one machine (cortex1) with these specs:
 
* 8 x [http://ark.intel.com/products/65523/Intel-Core-i7-3770K-Processor-(8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz) i7-3770K] @ 3.50GHz processor
Cortex machines are at the vislab robotics network domain:
* 16GB of memory (<code>sudo dmidecode --type 17</code> to see RAM speed and type)
* Domain: visnet
* 112GB SSD drive + 1TB HDD drive
* Subnet: 10.10.1.*
* NVidia [http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-670 GeForce GTX 670] graphics card (CUDA)
 
* internal ISR IP address: 10.10.1.1
== Cortex nodes ==
 
Cortex server and clients have the following ip's and domain names:
* Server:  10.10.1.240, server.visnet
* Client 1: 10.10.1.1,  cortex1.visnet
* Client 2: 10.10.1.2,  cortex2.visnet
* Client 3: 10.10.1.3,  cortex3.visnet
* Client 4: 10.10.1.4,  cortex4.visnet
* Client 5: 10.10.1.5,  cortex5.visnet
* Client 6: 10.10.1.6,  cortex6.visnet
 
== Other nodes ==
 
Other assigned ip's and names are:
* Gateway: 10.10.1.254, gtisr.visnet
* Cortex Switch: 10.10.1.250, swcompurack.visnet
* Vislab Switch: 10.10.1.251, swvislab.visnet
* iCubBrain1: 10.10.1.41, icubbrain1.visnet
* iCubBrain2: 10.10.1.42, icubbrain2.visnet
* DHCP Range: 10.10.1.100-199
* Chico pc104: 10.10.1.50
* Chico clients: 10.10.51-59
* Chica Net: 10.10.1.60-69
* Balta Net: 10.10.1.70-79
 
== DNS Configuration ==
 
Name resolution in the visnet network is managed by a bind system in server.visnet. To add/change the table of names and ip's do 'cd /etc/bind', edit and change the file ' /visnet.src' (need super user permission)and then run 'make'. After a while (the tables must be copied to ISR DNS server, may take a few minutes) you can ping the new machines by name.
 
At the time of this writing, the configuration file is as follows:
 
## 10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[[User:Alex|Alex]]
## Tabela de DNS -- VisNet
## 10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)10:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[[User:Alex|Alex]]
##
domain("visnet")
prefix("10.10.1")
soa("server.isrnet", "alex", "isr.ist.utl.pt")
ns("server.visnet")
##
## Sintaxe:
## NOME ------- IP ---- COMENTARIO (entre aspas) ----------------------
##
a(cortex1, 1, "Compurack client 1")
a(cortex2, 2, "Compurack client 2")
a(cortex3, 3, "Compurack client 3")
a(cortex4, 4, "Compurack client 4")
a(cortex5, 5, "Compurack client 5")
a(cortex6, 6, "Compurack client 6")
a(cortex7, 7, "Compurack client 7")
a(icubbrain1, 41, "Supermicro 1")
a(icubbrain2,  42,    "Supermicro 2")
a(pc104, 50, "Chico pc104")
a(icubsrv, 51, "iCub chico")
a(chico2, 52, "iCub chico")
a(chico3, 53, "iCub chico")
a(chico4, 54, "iCub chico")
a(chico5, 55, "iCub chico")
a(chico6, 56, "iCub chico")
a(chico7, 57, "iCub chico")
a(chico8, 58, "iCub chico")
a(chico9, 59, "iCub chico")
a(chica, 60, "iCub chica")
a(chica1, 61, "iCub chica")
a(chica2, 62, "iCub chica")
a(chica3, 63, "iCub chica")
a(chica4, 64, "iCub chica")
a(chica5, 65, "iCub chica")
a(chica6, 66, "iCub chica")
a(chica7, 67, "iCub chica")
a(chica8, 68, "iCub chica")
a(chica9, 69, "iCub chica")
a(balta, 70, "Baltazar")
a(balta1, 71, "Baltazar")
a(balta2, 72, "Baltazar")
a(balta3, 73, "Baltazar")
a(balta4, 74, "Baltazar")
a(balta5, 75, "Baltazar")
a(balta6, 76, "Baltazar")
a(balta7, 77, "Baltazar")
a(balta8, 78, "Baltazar")
a(balta9, 79, "Baltazar")
range(dhcp-, 100, 199)
a(server, 240, "Compurack server")
a(swcompurack, 250, "Compurack switch")
a(swvislab, 251, "Vislab switch")
a(gtisr, 254, "gateway")
## -- EOF --
### Local Variables: ###
### gendns-keywords: ("^domain" "^prefix" "^soa" "^ns" "^mx" "^a" "^range" "^rangex" "^cname" ("\t" . highlight)) ###
### font-lock-defaults: (gendns-keywords nil t ((?# . "<") (?\n . ">")) nil) ###
### mode: font-lock ###
### End: ###
 
== Connectivity ==
Cortex machines are connected to Cortex Switch, that links to Vislab switch with a fiber optic connection of 4Gb/s.
 
== Traffic ==
Network traffic can be checked at:
* http://inode1.isrnet/cacti (user guest, pass guest)
 
= The Cortex Server =
 
The server has:
* Boot folder for the clients at /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg. Contains the files:
** default - default boot file
** <mac_address> - specific for a machine with the given mac address.
* startup scripts for each machine at /nfsroot/app
 
= The Cortex Clients =
 
== Configuration ==
 
The clients have:
* A superuser account (compurack) to administer system wide settings (configurations, libs, etc)
* Normal user accounts. The logon script runs by default the content of file $HOME/.bash_env, where users can set their environment variables, e.g. export ICUB_DIR=$HOME/iCub.
* A yarp account to update and install the yarp library. YARP_DIR is set by default to /home/yarp/yarp2 to all users (in /etc/bash.bashrc).
* An "icub" account with sudo privileges (done with <code>sudo adduser icub admin</code> on 2009-06-30)
 
= Global Libraries and Repositories =
 
== YARP ==
Yarp was set using the following commands (after logging in as yarp):
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@yarp0.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/yarp0 login
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@yarp0.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/yarp0 co -P yarp2
  cd yarp2
  cmake .    (or ccmake .)
  make
  make test
 
== OTHER ==
 
Other system wide libraries/apps are installed by the superuser.
 
Libraries not having a clean 'make install' currently present in /opt/:
* ARToolKit
* Ipopt-3.5.5-linux-x86_32-gcc4.2.4
 
Libraries that are cleanly installed:
Curses
  apt-get install libncurses5-dev
 
ACE
  apt-get install libace-dev
 
CMake
  apt-get install cmake
 
GSL
  apt-get install libgsl0-dev
 
GTK/GTKMM/Glade
  apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
  apt-get install libgtkmm-2.4-dev
  apt-get install libglademm-2.4-dev
 
OpenCV
  THE REPOSITORY IS NOW IN SVN FORM, WE NEED TO UPDATE THIS.
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@opencvlibrary.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/opencvlibrary co -P opencv
  cd opencv
  ./configure
  make
  make install
  add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
 
GLEW (OpenGL extension finder)
  apt-get install glew-utils
  apt-get install libglew1.5-dev
 
GLUT (Glu Utility toolkit)
apt-get install libglut-dev
 
= User Repositories =
 
Each user should manage its own repositories, e.g. the iCub repository:
  cvs -d vislab@cvs.robotcub.org:/cvsroot/robotcub co iCub
then you should add <iCub>/bin to your PATH by editing your ~/.bashrc like this:
  PATH=$PATH:~/iCub/bin/
  ICUB_DIR=~/iCub/
  export ICUB_DIR
  ICUB_ROOT=$ICUB_DIR
  export ICUB_ROOT
 
You should also edit ~/.bash_env adding these lines:
  export ICUB_DIR=$HOME/iCub
  export ICUB_ROOT=$ICUB_DIR
this is needed when you connect non-interactively via ssh to a Cortex computer, for instance when execute a "yarp run ..." on a Cortex, from Chico2.
 
Be aware that Ubuntu 7.10 (the version currently installed on the cluster) has a conflict with iKin, specifically with iCub/conf/FindIPOPT.cmake (used by iKin): for now, in order to compile iKin, change the following line of FindIPOPT.cmake from
  SET(IPOPT_LIB  ${IPOPT_LIB} gfortranbegin gfortran)
to
  SET(IPOPT_LIB  ${IPOPT_LIB} gfortran)
 
= Other configurations =
 
== Network tuning ==
 
  sysctl -w net.core.rmem_max=8388608
  sysctl -w net.core.wmem_max=8388608
  sysctl -w net.core.rmem_default=65536
  sysctl -w net.core.wmem_default=65536
  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem='4096 87380 8388608'
  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem='4096 65536 8388608'
  sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mem='8388608 8388608 8388608'
  sysctl -w net.ipv4.route.flush=1
 
== Prompt ($PS1) ==
The prompt is set to "user@cortex?:pwd$" in /etc/bash.bashrc. With those settings, if you log in to Cortex1, the prompt will be "user@cortex1:~$".
We chose to do so because sometimes it's convenient to have the number of the Cortex machine you're working on embedded in the prompt.
By default, though, this configuration is overridden in the users' ~/.bashrc file, and the prompt is set to "user@source" regardless of the Cortex machine you log in to.<br>
If you want to inhibit this behaviour in ~/.bashrc and thus have a prompt like "user@cortex?:pwd", just comment these lines in your ~/.bashrc:
  # set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
  case "$TERM" in
  xterm-color)
      PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
      ;;
  *)
      PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
      ;;
  esac
However, for users created after 2009-05-07, the prompt is already set to "user@cortex?:pwd$" by default.
 
= Helper commands =
 
* Check the kernel : uname -m
 
* Check the file versions : file
 
* Set bash shell in /etc/passwd
 
* Check disk space: du –h –s /home
 
* Check per user processes: ps -U <user>


[[Category:Vislab]]
[[Category:Vislab]]

Latest revision as of 13:59, 26 January 2018

Cortex is a server used by VisLab for running simulations (not the ones with the iCub robot).

Old information can be consulted at Cortex/Archive.

Specifications

As of 2017, there is one machine (cortex1) with these specs:

  • 8 x i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz processor
  • 16GB of memory (sudo dmidecode --type 17 to see RAM speed and type)
  • 112GB SSD drive + 1TB HDD drive
  • NVidia GeForce GTX 670 graphics card (CUDA)
  • internal ISR IP address: 10.10.1.1