This guided activity assists you in deploying a Compute Grid application. For more information: <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=tbgrun">Deploying Compute Grid applications</a> Choose to either store job information in the default Cloudscape (Derby) v10/1.x database, or in a database you specify. To store the job information in the default Derby database, skip to <a href="javascript:showHideStep('section1');showHideStep('section4')"> <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.core.guidedactivity/images/skip_task.gif" border="0" alt="" align="absmiddle"/> Create a cluster for the Compute Grid application</a> To store the job information in a different database, go to the To define the database tables that store job information, use a Data Definition Language (DDL) file provided during the installation of Compute Grid. The files are located in the <code><WAS_INSTALL_ROOT>/longRunning</code> directory. <dl> <li>DB2 - <code>CreateLREETablesDB2.ddl</code> </li> <li>Derby - <code>CreateLREETablesDerby.ddl</code></li> </dl> For more information: <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a onclick="checkForFocus()" target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=tbgexe">Creating an endpoint database</a> Define the JDBC provider and data source to connect to the database created in the previous task. To perform this task, use the following guided activity: <A TARGET="detail" HREF="/ibm/console/guidedactivity/csframe.jsp?cheatSheetURI=com.ibm.ws.console.resources/guidedactivity/cheatsheets/nl/lang/cheatsheet_resource.xml&cheatSheetPackage=com.ibm.ws.console.resources/guidedactivity/cheatsheets&fromStep=3"> <IMG SRC="/ibm/console/images/cheatsheets/start_task.gif" align="absmiddle" border="0" alt="Click to perform"/>Connecting to a database </A> Note: This data source must be accessible from every node that can host the Compute Grid application. To achieve this accessibility, the recommendation is to define the data source at the cell level. For more information: <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=tbgexe">Creating an endpoint database</a> Define a node group and dynamic cluster to host the Compute Grid application. To perform this task, use the following guided activity: <A TARGET="detail" HREF="/ibm/console/guidedactivity/csframe.jsp?cheatSheetURI=com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/cheatsheets/nl/lang/configure_wdo.xml&cheatSheetPackage=com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/cheatsheets&fromStep=4"> <IMG SRC="/ibm/console/images/cheatsheets/start_task.gif" align="absmiddle" border="0" alt="Click to perform"/>Prepare hosting environment for dynamic operations </A>. For more information: <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=tcgendpoint">Creating a node group and dynamic cluster for the endpoint</a> WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid includes three sample applications in the <code><WAS_INSTALL_ROOT>/installableApps</code> directory: <dl> <li>SimpleCI.ear</li> <li>PostingsSample.ear</li> <li>MandelbrotCI.ear</li> </dl> For more information: <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=tbgrun">Installing the Compute Grid application</a> <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/command_prompt.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a target="help" href="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=pix&product=was-nd-dist&topic=txml_callappinstall"> Installing applications with the wsadmin tool</a> Specify datasource JNDI names and database schema names for WebSphere servers and clusters hosting grid applications. In the job scheduler configuration panel, under Additional Properties, click WebSphere grid endpoints. For more information: <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <a target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=tbgsched">Configuring the endpoints database connection</a> Click Save in the message at the top of the console panel to update the configuration in the master repository. Start the application server or the dynamic cluster member defined in the previous task. The cluster member application server's name is in the form <code>{dynamic_cluster_name}_{node_name}</code> After completing the previous steps, the Compute Grid application is ready to be deployed. The next steps are to create and manage jobs from the Job Management Console: <dl> <li> Prepare the xJCL document which defines the job </li> <li> Launch the Job Management Console to submit the job to the job scheduler </li> </dl> <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <A target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=xJCL"> Topics related to xJCL </A> <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/topic.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <A target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=jmc_overview"> Job Management Console </A> <IMG SRC="../com.ibm.ws.console.guidedactivity/images/command_prompt.gif" border="0" alt="Online task documentation" align="absmiddle"/> <A target="help" HREF="http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?version=v6r1&product=xd-grid&topic=cbgcommd"> The command line interface </A>