Manuali utente per PAR Technologies PARASTATION5 V5

Sommario

• Table of Contents

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• Chapter 1. Introduction

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  • 1.1. What is ParaStation

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  • 1.2. The history of ParaStation

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  • 1.3. About this document

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• Chapter 2. Technical overview

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  • 2.1. Runtime daemon

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  • 2.2. Libraries

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  • 2.3. Kernel modules

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  • 2.4. License

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• Chapter 3. Installation

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  • 3.1. Prerequisites

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  • 3.2. Directory structure

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  • 3.3. Installation via RPM packages

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  • 3.4. Installing the documentation

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  • 3.5. Installing MPI

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  • 3.6. Further steps

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  • 3.7. Uninstalling ParaStation5

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• Chapter 4. Configuration

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  • 4.1. Configuration of the ParaStation system

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  • 4.2. Enable optimized network drivers

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  • 4.3. Testing the installation

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• Chapter 5. Insight ParaStation5

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  • 5.1. ParaStation5 pscom communication library

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  • 5.2. ParaStation5 protocol p4sock

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    • 5.2.1. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/state

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    • 5.2.2. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/ether

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    • 5.2.3. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local

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    • 5.2.4. p4stat

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  • 5.3. Controlling process placement

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  • 5.4. Using the ParaStation5 queuing facility

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  • 5.5. Exporting environment variables for a task

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  • 5.6. Using non-ParaStation applications

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  • 5.7. ParaStation5 TCP bypass

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  • 5.8. Controlling ParaStation5 communication paths

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  • 5.9. Authentication within ParaStation5

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  • 5.10. Homogeneous user ID space

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  • 5.11. Single system view

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  • 5.12. Parallel shell tool

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  • 5.13. Nodes and CPUs

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  • 5.14. Integration with AFS

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  • 5.15. Integrating external queuing systems

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    • 5.15.1. Integration with PBS PRO

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    • 5.15.2. Integration with OpenPBS

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    • 5.15.3. Integration with Torque

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    • 5.15.4. Integration with LSF

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    • 5.15.5. Integration with LoadLeveler

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  • 5.16. Multicasts

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  • 5.17. Copying files in parallel

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  • 5.18. Using ParaStation accounting

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  • 5.19. Using ParaStation process pinning

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  • 5.20. Using memory binding

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  • 5.21. Spawning processes belonging to all groups

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  • 5.22. Changing the default ports for psid(8)

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• Chapter 6. Troubleshooting

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  • 6.1.  Problem: psiadmin returns error

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  • 6.2.  Problem: node shown as "down"

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  • 6.3.  Problem: cannot start parallel task

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  • 6.4.  Problem: bad performance

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  • 6.5.  Problem: different groups of nodes are seen as up or down

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  • 6.6.  Problem: cannot start process on front end

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  • 6.7.  Warning issued on task startup

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  • 6.8.  Problem: pssh fails

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  • 6.9.  Problem: psid does not startup, reports port in use

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  • 6.10.  Problem: processes cannot access files on remote nodes

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• Reference Pages

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  • parastation.conf

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  • psiadmin

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  • psid

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  • test_config

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  • test_nodes

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  • test_pse

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  • p4stat

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  • p4tcp

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  • psaccounter

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  • psaccview

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  • mlisten

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• Appendix A. Quick Installation Guide

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• Appendix B. ParaStation license

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• Appendix C. Upgrading ParaStation4 to ParaStation5

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  • C.1. Building and installing ParaStation5 packages

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  • C.2. Changes to the runtime environment

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• Glossary

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