HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.2

HP Cluster Platform
The cluster platform documentation describes site requirements, shows you how to set up the
servers and additional devices, and provides procedures to operate and manage the hardware.
These documents are available at the following website:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/linuxhpc.html
HP Integrity and HP ProLiant Servers
Documentation for HP Integrity and HP ProLiant servers is available at the following website:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/hw.html
Related Information
This section provides useful links to third-party, open source, and other related software products.
Supplementary Software Products This section provides links to third-party and open source
software products that are integrated into the HP XC System Software core technology. In the
HP XC documentation, except where necessary, references to third-party and open source
software components are generic, and the HP XC adjective is not added to any reference to a
third-party or open source command or product name. For example, the SLURM srun command
is simply referred to as the srun command.
The location of each website or link to a particular topic listed in this section is subject to change
without notice by the site provider.
• http://www.platform.com
Home page for Platform Computing Corporation, the developer of the Load Sharing Facility
(LSF). LSF-HPC with SLURM, the batch system resource manager used on an HP XC system,
is tightly integrated with the HP XC and SLURM software. Documentation specific to
LSF-HPC with SLURM is provided in the HP XC documentation set.
Standard LSF is also available as an alternative resource management system (instead of
LSF-HPC with SLURM) for HP XC. This is the version of LSF that is widely discussed on
the Platform website.
For your convenience, the following Platform Computing Corporation LSF documents are
shipped on the HP XC documentation CD in PDF format:
— Administering Platform LSF
— Administration Primer
— Platform LSF Reference
— Quick Reference Card
— Running Jobs with Platform LSF
LSF procedures and information supplied in the HP XC documentation, particularly the
documentation relating to the LSF-HPC integration with SLURM, supersedes the information
supplied in the LSF manuals from Platform Computing Corporation.
The Platform Computing Corporation LSF manpages are installed by default. lsf_diff(7)
supplied by HP describes LSF command differences when using LSF-HPC with SLURM on
an HP XC system
The following documents in the HP XC System Software Documentation Set provide
information about administering and using LSF on an HP XC system:
— HP XC System Software Administration Guide
— HP XC System Software User's Guide
• http://www.llnl.gov/LCdocs/slurm/
Documentation for the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), which is
integrated with LSF to manage job and compute resources on an HP XC system.
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