HP XC System Software Administration Guide Version 2.1

12 LSF-HPC Administration
12.1
Integration of LSF-HPC with SLURM ............................................. 12-1
12.1.1
Job Starter Script ................................................................. 12-2
12.1.2
SLURM External Scheduler .................................................... 12-2
12.1.3
SLURM lsf Partition ............................................................ 12-3
12.1.4
LSF-HPC Failover ............................................................... 12-3
12.2
Installation of LSF-HPC on SLURM ............................................... 12-4
12.3
LSF-HPC Startup and Shutdown .................................................... 12-5
12.3.1
Starting Up LSF ................................................................. 12-5
12.3.2
Shutting Down LSF-HPC ....................................................... 12-6
12.4
Controlling the LSF-HPC Service ................................................... 12-6
12.5
Load Indexes and Resource Information ........................................... 12-6
12.6
Launching Jobs with LSF-HPC for SLURM ....................................... 12-7
12.7
Monitoring and Controlling LSF-HPC Jobs ........................................ 12-8
12.8
Job Accounting ....................................................................... 12-9
12.9
LSF-HPC Failover .................................................................... 12-10
12.9.1
Overview of LSF-HPC Monitoring and Failover Support ................... 12-10
12.9.2
The Interplay of LSF-HPC and SLURM ...................................... 12-10
12.9.3
Assigning the Resource Management Nodes .................................. 12-10
12.9.4
LSF-HPC Failover and Running Jobs ......................................... 12-11
12.10
LSF-HPC Monitoring ................................................................ 12-12
12.10.1
LSF Execution Host Failure .................................................... 12-12
12.11
Enhancing LSF-HPC ................................................................. 12-13
12.11.1
LSF-HPC Enhancement Settings ............................................... 12-13
12.11.2
Thresholds in LSF-HPC-SLURM Interplay ................................... 12-13
12.12
Extending the LSF-HPC Cluster .................................................... 12-14
12.13
Configuring an External Virtual Hostname for L SF-HPC on HP XC Systems . . 12-14
13 Managing Modulefiles
13.
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Managing Modulefiles ............................................................... 13-1
14 Mounting File Systems
14.1
Overview of the Network File System on the HP XC System .................... 14-1
14.2
Understanding the Global fstab File ................................................. 14-1
14.3
Mounting Internal File Systems Throughout the HP XC System ................. 14-3
14.3.1
Understanding the csys U til ity in the Mounting Instructions ................ 14-4
14.3.2
Mounting Internal File Systems ................................................ 14-5
14.4
Mounting Remote File Systems ..................................................... 14-7
14.4.1
Understanding the Mounting Instructions ..................................... 14-8
14.4.2
Mounting Remote File Systems ................................................ 14-9
15 Using Diagnostic Tools
15.1
Using the sys_check Utility .......................................................... 15-1
15.2
Using the ovp Utility for System Verification ...................................... 15-2
15.3
Using the dgemm Utility to Analyze Performance ................................. 15-3
15.4
Using the System Interconnect Diagnostic Tools .................................. 15-4
15.4.1
HP XC Diagnostic Tools for the Myrinet System Interconnect .............. 15-5
15.4.1.1
The gm_prodmode_mon Diagnostic Tool ................................ 15-5
15.4.1.2
The gm_drain_test Diagnostic Tool ....................................... 15-6
15.4.2
Using Diagnostic Tools for th e Quadrics System I nterconn ect . .. ... ..... ... 15-6
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