HP-MPI Version 2.3.1 for Linux Release Note
Table Of Contents
- HP-MPI V2.3.1 for Linux Release Note
- Table of Contents
- 1 Information About This Release
- 2 New or Changed Features in V2.3.1
- 3 New or Changed Features in V2.3
- 3.1 Options Supported Only on HP Hardware
- 3.2 System Check
- 3.3 Default Message Size Changed For -ndd
- 3.4 MPICH2 Compatibility
- 3.5 Support for Large Messages
- 3.6 Redundant License Servers
- 3.7 License Release/Regain on Suspend/Resume
- 3.8 Expanded Functionality for -ha
- 3.8.1 Support for High Availability on InfiniBand Verbs
- 3.8.2 Highly Available Infrastructure (-ha:infra)
- 3.8.3 Using MPI_Comm_connect and MPI_Comm_accept
- 3.8.4 Using MPI_Comm_disconnect
- 3.8.5 Instrumentation and High Availability Mode
- 3.8.6 Failure Recover (-ha:recover)
- 3.8.7 Network High Availability (-ha:net)
- 3.8.8 Failure Detection (-ha:detect)
- 3.8.9 Clarification of the Functionality of Completion Routines in High Availability Mode
- 3.9 Enhanced InfiniBand Support for Dynamic Processes
- 3.10 Singleton Launching
- 3.11 Using the -stdio=files Option
- 3.12 Using the -stdio=none Option
- 3.13 Expanded Lightweight Instrumentation
- 3.14 The api option to MPI_INSTR
- 3.15 New mpirun option -xrc
- 4 Known Issues and Workarounds
- 4.1 Running on iWarp Hardware
- 4.2 Running with Chelsio uDAPL
- 4.3 Mapping Ranks to a CPU
- 4.4 OFED Firmware
- 4.5 Spawn on Remote Nodes
- 4.6 Default Interconnect for -ha Option
- 4.7 Linking Without Compiler Wrappers
- 4.8 Locating the Instrumentation Output File
- 4.9 Using the ScaLAPACK Library
- 4.10 Increasing Shared Memory Segment Size
- 4.11 Using MPI_FLUSH_FCACHE
- 4.12 Using MPI_REMSH
- 4.13 Increasing Pinned Memory
- 4.14 Disabling Fork Safety
- 4.15 Using Fork with OFED
- 4.16 Memory Pinning with OFED 1.2
- 4.17 Upgrading to OFED 1.2
- 4.18 Increasing the nofile Limit
- 4.19 Using appfiles on HP XC Quadrics
- 4.20 Using MPI_Bcast on Quadrics
- 4.21 MPI_Issend Call Limitation on Myrinet MX
- 4.22 Terminating Shells
- 4.23 Disabling Interval Timer Conflicts
- 4.24 libpthread Dependency
- 4.25 Fortran Calls Wrappers
- 4.26 Bindings for C++ and Fortran 90
- 4.27 Using HP Caliper
- 4.28 Using -tv
- 4.29 Extended Collectives with Lightweight Instrumentation
- 4.30 Using -ha with Diagnostic Library
- 4.31 Using MPICH with Diagnostic Library
- 4.32 Using -ha with MPICH
- 4.33 Using MPI-2 with Diagnostic Library
- 4.34 Quadrics Memory Leak
- 5 Installation Information
- 6 Licensing Information
- 7 Additional Product Information
7 Additional Product Information
7.1 Product Documentation
The HP-MPI Documentation Kit is an optional product (product number B6281AA)
consisting of the following:
• MPI: The Complete Reference (2 volume set) product number B6011-96012
• HP-MPI User’s Guide (Eleventh Edition) product number B6060-96024
The HP-MPI User’s Guide and HP-MPI Release Notes are available from the following
resources:
• $MPI_ROOT/doc (After you install the product.)
• http://docs.hp.com
• http://www.hp.com/go/mpi
For information about the HP-MPI product, go to http://www.hp.com/go/mpi.
Documentation for HP XC systems is available online at http://docs.hp.com.
Documentation for HP XC System V3.2.1 software is available online at http://
docs.hp.com/en/linuxhpc.html.
For more details on InfiniBand platforms supported, go to http://www.hp.com/
products1/serverconnectivity/adapters/infiniband/specifications.html
Additional product documentation:
• HP-MPI manpages are installed in $MPI_ROOT/share/man
Table 7-1 Manpage Categories
DescriptionManpagesCategory
The general features of HP-MPIMPI.1General
The available compilation utilities
mpicc.1
mpiCC.1
mpif77.1
mpif90.1
Compilation
runtime utilities, environment variables, debugging,
thread-safe, and diagnostic libraries
mpiclean.1
mpidebug.1
mpienv.1
mpiexec.1
mpijob.1
mpimtsafe.1
mpirun.1
mpistdio.1
autodbl.1
Runtime
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