LSF Version 7.3 - Using Platform LSF HPC

About Platform LSF and MPICH-GM
MPICH is a freely available, portable implementation of the MPI Standard for message-
passing libraries, developed jointly with Mississippi State University. MPICH is designed
to provide high performance, portability, and a convenient programming environment.
MPICH-GM is used with high performance Myrinet networks. Myrinet is a high-speed
network which allows OS-bypass communications in large clusters. MPICH-GM
integrates with Platform LSF so users can run parallel jobs on hosts with at least one
free port.
Requirements
❏ MPICH version 1.2.6 or later
You should upgrade all your hosts to the same version of MPICH-GM.
❏ GM versions 1.5.1, and 1.6.3 or later
Assumptions
◆ MPICH-GM is installed and configured correctly
◆ The user's current working directory is part of a shared file system reachable by all
hosts
Glossary
(Message Passing Interface) A message passing standard. It defines a message passing
API useful for parallel and distributed applications.
A portable implementation of the MPI standard.
A message based communication system developed for Myrinet.
An MPI implementation based on MPICH for Myrinet.
(Parallel Application Manager) The supervisor of any parallel job.
(Parallel Job Launcher) Any executable script or binary capable of starting parallel tasks
on all hosts assigned for a parallel job.
(Remote Execution Server) An LSF daemon residing on each host. It monitors and
manages all LSF tasks on the host.
(TaskStarter) An executable responsible for starting a task on the local host and
reporting the process ID and host name to the PAM.
For more information
◆ See the Myricom Web site at www.myrinet.com for software distribution and
documentation on Myrinet clusters.
◆ See the Mathematics and Computer Science Division (MCS) of Argonne National
Laboratory (ANL) MPICH Web page at
www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich/ for more information about MPICH.
Files installed by lsfinstall
During installation, lsfinstall copies these files to the following directories: