HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.2.1

Table 3-9 LSF-HPC with SLURM and Standard LSF Features
Standard LSFLSF-HPC with SLURM
• Ideal for serial jobs because it is a load-based
scheduler
• Finds the free resource that is the least loaded and
dispatches the job to that node.
• Sufficient for sites that do not need the type of
parallel job support provided by LSF-HPC with
SLURM.
• Parallel support (through SLURM) for:
— Accounting
— Signal propagation
— I/O
— Job launching
• Designed to ensure that parallel jobs (MPI jobs)
achieve the best performance by dedicating whole
nodes to parallel jobs. This works well for systems
with 2 processor and 4 processor nodes where jobs
are expected to span across nodes.
• Exclusive node allocation with exclusive user access
control.
• Presents the entire system as a single, large SMP
host rather than a large system of many hosts. This
simplifies system status commands because
information is shown for one host, which makes it
desirable for large-scale systems.
18. If you are installing LSF-HPC with SLURM, your first decision is where to assign the primary
LSF node; this decision is not required for standard LSF.
• If more than one node has the resource_management role, you are prompted to
identify the primary LSF node, as follows:
Here is the set of nodes from which to select the Primary
XC LSF-HPC node: n[15-16]
Enter the Primary XC LSF-HPC node [n16] : n16
• If only one node has the resource_management role, the following appears:
n16 is the only node with the Resource Management role,
and it is the Primary LSF-HPC node.
19. Provide responses to install and configure LSF. This requires you to supply information
about the primary LSF administrator and administrator's password.
The default user name for the primary LSF administrator is lsfadmin. If you accept the
default user name and a NIS account exists with the same name, LSF is configured with the
existing NIS account, and you are not be prompted to supply a password. Otherwise, accept
all default answers.
Command output is similar to the following:
What name shall LSF use to uniquely identify this system?
No existing host names are allowed, and the name must be
less than 39 characters with no whitespace:
LSF System Name [hptclsf]: Enter
Enter the name of the Primary LSF Administrator. You can
configure additional administrators later, but this user
must exist now in order to be given ownership of the files
to be installed. If this user does not exist, it will be
created locally [lsfadmin]: Enter
The lsfadmin user does not exist. Do you want to
create this user now? (y/n) [y] Enter
Changing password for user lsfadmin.
New UNIX password: your_lsfadmin_password
Retype new UNIX password: your_lsfadmin_password
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
Executing the Platform LSF-HPC installation script (hpcinstall)...
98 Configuring and Imaging the System