HP XC System 3.x Software - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
About This Document...................................................................................13
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................13
Document Organization.........................................................................................................................13
HP XC Information.................................................................................................................................14
For More Information........................................................................................................................15
Supplementary Information...............................................................................................................15
Manpages......................................................................................................................................16
Related Information...............................................................................................................................16
Typographic Conventions.......................................................................................................................18
HP Encourages Your Comments..............................................................................................................18
1 Overview of the User Environment
System Architecture...............................................................................................................................19
HP XC System Software....................................................................................................................19
Operating System............................................................................................................................19
Node Platforms................................................................................................................................19
Node Specialization........................................................................................................................20
Storage and I/O.............................................................................................................................20
File System......................................................................................................................................21
System Interconnect Network.............................................................................................................22
Network Address Translation (NAT)....................................................................................................22
Determining System Configuration Information..........................................................................................22
User Environment..................................................................................................................................23
LVS................................................................................................................................................23
Modules.........................................................................................................................................23
Commands.....................................................................................................................................23
Application Development Environment.....................................................................................................24
Parallel Applications.........................................................................................................................24
Serial Applications...........................................................................................................................24
Run-Time Environment............................................................................................................................24
SLURM...........................................................................................................................................24
Load Sharing Facility (LSF-HPC)..........................................................................................................25
Standard LSF...................................................................................................................................25
How LSF-HPC and SLURM Interact......................................................................................................25
HP-MPI...........................................................................................................................................26
Components, Tools, Compilers, Libraries, and Debuggers...........................................................................26
2 Using the System
Logging In to the System........................................................................................................................27
LVS Login Routing............................................................................................................................27
Using the Secure Shell to Log In.........................................................................................................27
Overview of Launching and Managing Jobs.............................................................................................27
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................28
Getting Information About Queues.....................................................................................................28
Getting Information About Resources..................................................................................................28
Getting Information About System Partitions.........................................................................................29
Launching Jobs................................................................................................................................29
Getting Information About Your Jobs..................................................................................................29
Stopping and Suspending Jobs..........................................................................................................29
Resuming Suspended Jobs................................................................................................................29
Performing Other Common User Tasks.....................................................................................................29
Determining the LSF Cluster Name and the LSF Execution Host...............................................................29
Getting System Help and Information.......................................................................................................30
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