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

Table of Contents
About This Document.......................................................................................................13
1 Intended Audience................................................................................................................................13
2 New and Changed Information in This Edition........................................................................................13
3 Typographic Conventions......................................................................................................................13
4 HP XC and Related HP Products Information..........................................................................................14
5 Related information...............................................................................................................................15
6 Manpages.............................................................................................................................................18
7 HP Encourages Your Comments.............................................................................................................18
1 Overview of the User Environment.............................................................................19
1.1 System Architecture............................................................................................................................19
1.1.1 HP XC System Software...............................................................................................................19
1.1.2 Operating System........................................................................................................................19
1.1.3 Node Platforms...........................................................................................................................19
1.1.4 Node Specialization.....................................................................................................................20
1.1.5 Storage and I/O...........................................................................................................................21
1.1.6 File System.................................................................................................................................21
1.1.7 System Interconnect Network......................................................................................................22
1.1.8 Network Address Translation (NAT)............................................................................................22
1.2 Determining System Configuration Information....................................................................................22
1.3 User Environment...............................................................................................................................23
1.3.1 LVS............................................................................................................................................23
1.3.2 Modules.....................................................................................................................................23
1.3.3 Commands.................................................................................................................................23
1.4 Application Development Environment................................................................................................24
1.4.1 Parallel Applications...................................................................................................................24
1.4.2 Serial Applications......................................................................................................................24
1.5 Run-Time Environment.......................................................................................................................24
1.5.1 SLURM......................................................................................................................................24
1.5.2 Load Sharing Facility (LSF-HPC)..................................................................................................25
1.5.3 Standard LSF..............................................................................................................................25
1.5.4 How LSF-HPC and SLURM Interact.............................................................................................25
1.5.5 HP-MPI......................................................................................................................................26
1.6 Components, Tools, Compilers, Libraries, and Debuggers......................................................................26
2 Using the System..........................................................................................................27
2.1 Logging In to the System.....................................................................................................................27
2.1.1 LVS Login Routing......................................................................................................................27
2.1.2 Using the Secure Shell to Log In...................................................................................................27
2.2 Overview of Launching and Managing Jobs..........................................................................................27
2.2.1 Introduction................................................................................................................................28
2.2.2 Getting Information About Queues..............................................................................................28
2.2.3 Getting Information About Resources...........................................................................................28
2.2.4 Getting Information About System Partitions................................................................................29
2.2.5 Launching Jobs...........................................................................................................................29
2.2.6 Getting Information About Your Jobs...........................................................................................29
2.2.7 Stopping and Suspending Jobs.....................................................................................................29
2.2.8 Resuming Suspended Jobs...........................................................................................................29
2.3 Performing Other Common User Tasks.................................................................................................29
2.3.1 Determining the LSF Cluster Name and the LSF Execution Host....................................................29
2.4 Getting System Help and Information..................................................................................................30
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