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ParaStation5 Administrator's Guide iii
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1
1.1. What is ParaStation ......................................................................................................... 1
1.2. The history of ParaStation ................................................................................................ 1
1.3. About this document ........................................................................................................ 2
2. Technical overview ..................................................................................................................... 3
2.1. Runtime daemon .............................................................................................................. 3
2.2. Libraries ........................................................................................................................... 3
2.3. Kernel modules ................................................................................................................ 3
2.4. License ............................................................................................................................ 4
3. Installation .................................................................................................................................. 5
3.1. Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 5
3.2. Directory structure ............................................................................................................ 6
3.3. Installation via RPM packages .......................................................................................... 7
3.4. Installing the documentation ............................................................................................. 9
3.5. Installing MPI ................................................................................................................. 10
3.6. Further steps .................................................................................................................. 10
3.7. Uninstalling ParaStation5 ................................................................................................ 11
4. Configuration ............................................................................................................................ 13
4.1. Configuration of the ParaStation system .......................................................................... 13
4.2. Enable optimized network drivers .................................................................................... 14
4.3. Testing the installation .................................................................................................... 15
5. Insight ParaStation5 .................................................................................................................. 17
5.1. ParaStation5 pscom communication library ...................................................................... 17
5.2. ParaStation5 protocol p4sock .......................................................................................... 17
5.2.1. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/state .................................................................... 18
5.2.2. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/ether ....................................................................... 18
5.2.3. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local ....................................................................... 19
5.2.4. p4stat ............................................................................................................... 19
5.3. Controlling process placement ........................................................................................ 19
5.4. Using the ParaStation5 queuing facility ............................................................................ 20
5.5. Exporting environment variables for a task ....................................................................... 20
5.6. Using non-ParaStation applications ................................................................................. 20
5.7. ParaStation5 TCP bypass ............................................................................................... 21
5.8. Controlling ParaStation5 communication paths ................................................................. 21
5.9. Authentication within ParaStation5 ................................................................................... 22
5.10. Homogeneous user ID space ....................................................................................... 23
5.11. Single system view ....................................................................................................... 23
5.12. Parallel shell tool .......................................................................................................... 23
5.13. Nodes and CPUs ......................................................................................................... 23
5.14. Integration with AFS ..................................................................................................... 24
5.15. Integrating external queuing systems ............................................................................. 24
5.15.1. Integration with PBS PRO .................................................................................. 25
5.15.2. Integration with OpenPBS .................................................................................. 25
5.15.3. Integration with Torque ...................................................................................... 25
5.15.4. Integration with LSF ........................................................................................... 25
5.15.5. Integration with LoadLeveler ............................................................................... 25
5.16. Multicasts ..................................................................................................................... 25
5.17. Copying files in parallel ................................................................................................. 26
5.18. Using ParaStation accounting ....................................................................................... 26
5.19. Using ParaStation process pinning ................................................................................ 27
5.20. Using memory binding .................................................................................................. 27
5.21. Spawning processes belonging to all groups .................................................................. 27
5.22. Changing the default ports for psid(8) ............................................................................ 27
6. Troubleshooting ........................................................................................................................ 29
6.1. Problem: psiadmin returns error .................................................................................... 29