LSF Version 7.3 - Using Platform LSF HPC

About Platform LSF and MVAPICH
MVAPICH is an open-source product developed in the Department of Computer and
Information Science, The Ohio State University. MVAPICH is MPI-1 over VAPI for
InfiniBand. It is an MPI-1 implementation on Verbs Level Interface (VAPI), developed
by Mellanox Technologies. The implementation is based on MPICH and MVICH.
The LSF MVAPICH MPI integration is based on the LSF generic PJL framework. It
supports the following MVAPICH variations:
◆ Generic MVAPICH (OSU)
◆ Topspin® used in Platform ROCKS
◆ IBRIX™ roll used in Platform ROCKS
Requirements
❏ The latest release is MVAPICH 0.9.4 (includes MPICH 1.2.6). or later
You should upgrade all your hosts to the same version of MVAPICH.
Assumptions and limitations
◆ MVAPICH is installed and configured correctly
◆ The user's current working directory is part of a shared file system reachable by all
hosts
◆ The directory specified by the MVAPICH_HOME variable is accessible by the
same path on 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.
(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 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.
◆ MVAPICH HOME: nowlab.cis.ohio-state.edu/projects/mpi-iba/
◆ ROCKS HOME: www.rocksclusters.org/Rocks/
◆ Topspin: www.topspin.com/resources/index.html
◆ IBRIX roll: http://www.rocksclusters.org/Rocks/