Lenovo provides yum repositories of relevant software for managing HPC as well as scale out Linux installations in general. This includes xCAT and confluent.

Adding Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Select the repository appropriate for the major version, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:

rpm -ivh https://hpc.lenovo.com/yum/latest/el8/x86_64/lenovo-hpc-yum-1-1.x86_64.rpm

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9:

rpm -ivh https://hpc.lenovo.com/yum/latest/el9/x86_64/lenovo-hpc-yum-1-1.x86_64.rpm

On a new Minimal Install without Red Hat Subscription Manager configured. You will need additional packages from the install media. Follow instuctions to add the install media as a repository on https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1355683.

Adding Repository for Ubuntu Linux

Download our gpg key:

# wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/confluent.gpg https://hpc.lenovo.com/apt/latest/lenovo-hpc.key

Create the following apt configuration if running Ubuntu 24.04 (noble), substitute the distribution name for other editions (e.g. jammy instead of noble):

Types: deb
URIs: https://hpc.lenovo.com/apt/latest/noble
Suites: noble
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/confluent.gpg

Then run apt update to pull the repository information.

Adding Repository for SuSE Linux Enterprise 15

rpm --import https://hpc.lenovo.com/yum/latest/suse15/x86_64/lenovohpckey.pub
zypper install https://hpc.lenovo.com/yum/latest/suse15/x86_64/lenovo-hpc-zypper-1-1.x86_64.rpm

Adding Local Repository

If you cannot reach the repository from your target system, you can download the package from a system that can reach https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/ and then transfer and install the repositories locally on your target system.

The files may be browsed at https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/:

#On a system that can reach https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/
#Download the package for your specific OS version
wget https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/latest-el9.tar.xz
#or
wget https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/latest-el8.tar.xz
#or
wget https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/latest-suse15.tar.xz

#On your local system 
#Create folder for the local repository
mkdir /mnt/local_repo

#Extract the repository 
tar -xf latest-el8.tar.xz -C /mnt/local_repo
#or
tar -xf latest-suse15.tar.xz -C /mnt/local_repo

#Create lenovo-hpc.repo to point to the local repository
cd /mnt/local_repo/lenovo-hpc-el8/
#or
cd /mnt/local_repo/lenovo-hpc-suse15/
./mklocalrepo.sh

Further information

See the documentation for information on how to install and configure software provided in these repositories.

Sources are available at https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/sources/