A examples, A.1 building and running a serial application, Section a.1 – HP XC System 2.x Software User Manual
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A
Examples
This appendix provides examples that illustrate how to build and run applications on the HP XC
system. The examples in this section show you how to take advantage of some of the many
methods available, and demonstrate a variety of other user commands to monitor, control, or
kill jobs.
The examples in this section assume that you have read the information in previous chapters
describing how to use the HP XC commands to build and run parallel applications. Only
examples of building and running applications are provided in this section — detailed
information about the commands is not provided.
A.1 Building and Running a Serial Application
This example show how to build a simple application, called
hello world
, and launch it
with the SLURM
srun
command.
The following is the source code for the
hello world
program, located in file
hw_hostname.c
.
#include
#include
int main()
{
char name[100];
gethostname(name, sizeof(name));
printf("%s says Hello!\n", name);
return 0;
}
The
hello world
program is compiled in the usual way:
$ cc hw_hostname.c -o hw_hostname
When run on the login node, it shows the name of the login node;
n16
in this case:
$ ./hw_hostname
n16 says Hello!
srun
can be used to run it on one of the compute nodes. This time it lands on
n13
:
$ srun ./hw_hostname
n13 says Hello!
srun
can also be used to replicate it on several compute nodes. This is not generally useful, but
is included for illustrative purposes.
$ srun -n4 ./hw_hostname
n13 says Hello!
n13 says Hello!
n14 says Hello!
n14 says Hello!
A.2 Launching a Serial Interactive Shell Through LSF
This section provides an example that shows how to launch a serial interactive shell through
LSF. The
bsub -Is
command is used to launch an interactive shell through LSF. This example
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