HP XC System Software Release Notes for Version 3.0

8 Programming and User Environment Notes..............................................................47
8.1 Notes About HP MPI and Modulefiles...........................................................................................47
8.2 Configuring the Intel Trace Collector and Analyzer with HP MPI on HP XC...............................47
8.2.1 Installation Notes....................................................................................................................47
8.2.2 HP MPI and the Intel Trace Collector (OTA)..........................................................................47
9 Load Sharing Facility and Job Management Notes.................................................51
9.1 Load Sharing Facility.......................................................................................................................51
9.1.1 Maintaining Shell Prompts in LSF-HPC Interactive Shells.....................................................51
9.1.2 How To Switch the Type of LSF Installed...............................................................................52
9.1.3 Node Reboot May Result in Inconclusive Job Termination....................................................52
9.1.4 Short LSF Queue RUN_WINDOW Can Suspend Other Jobs.................................................53
9.2 SLURM and Job Management.........................................................................................................53
9.2.1 Error in slurm.epilog.clean Script...........................................................................................53
9.2.2 How to Remove SLURM.........................................................................................................53
10 Cluster Platform 3000 Notes....................................................................................55
11 Cluster Platform 4000 Notes.....................................................................................57
11.1 HP ProLiant DL145 G2 Console Port Might Lose Connectivity to the Administration
Network................................................................................................................................................57
11.2 Benign Message During Reboot....................................................................................................57
12 Cluster Platform 6000 Notes....................................................................................59
13 Interconnect Notes.....................................................................................................61
13.1 InfiniBand Interconnect.................................................................................................................61
13.2 Myrinet Interconnect.....................................................................................................................61
13.2.1 The clear_counters Command Does Not Work on the 256 Port Switch................................61
13.3 QsNetII Interconnect.....................................................................................................................61
13.3.1 Cannot Use telnet With Quadrics Switch Controller Firmware Version 44-5032399............61
13.3.2 ELAN4 Diagnostic Tools Fail on Systems With ELAN3 Interconnect..................................61
13.3.3 Possible Conflict with Use of SIGUSR2.................................................................................62
13.3.4 The qsnet Database May Contain Entries to Nonexistent Switch Modules.........................62
14 Documentation Notes................................................................................................63
14.1 HP XC Hardware Preparation Guide............................................................................................63
14.2 HP XC System Software Installation Guide..................................................................................63
14.2.1 Configure sendmail (Required).............................................................................................63
14.3 Information Omitted From the HP XC System Software Administration Guide.........................63
14.3.1 System Event Logs.................................................................................................................64
14.3.2 Configuring System Event Logging......................................................................................64
14.3.3 Modifying System Event Log Rotation and Nagios Alerts...................................................64
14.3.4 Moving SLURM and LSF to Their Backup Nodes................................................................65
14.4 Inaccurate Information in the HP XC System Software Administration Guide...........................65
14.4.1 LSF-HPC Failover and Running Jobs....................................................................................65
14.4.2 Changing the Root Password................................................................................................66
14.4.3 Using the si_updateclient Utility...........................................................................................66
14.5 HP XC Manpages..........................................................................................................................66
14.5.1 controllsf(8)............................................................................................................................66
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