PAR Technologies V5 manual Administrators Guide

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Administrator's Guide

Release 5.0.5

Published April 2010

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Contents Administrators Guide Info@par-tec.com ParaStation5 Administrators GuideTable of Contents Problem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down History of ParaStation IntroductionAbout this document Runtime daemon Technical overviewLibraries Kernel modulesLicense Prerequisites InstallationHardware Software Directory structureKernel version Getting the ParaStation5 RPM packages Installation via RPM packagesMan Mpi2, mpi2-intel, mpi2-pgi, mpi2-pscCompiling the ParaStation5 packages from source Installing the RPMsFile Version Etc/init.d/xinetd reload Installing the documentationParaStation entries Further steps Installing MPI# rpm -Uv psdoc-5.0.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uv psmpi2.5.0.0-1.i586.rpmUninstalling ParaStation5 ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Configuration of the ParaStation system ConfigurationCopy template Define Number of nodes# /opt/parastation/bin/testconfig Enable optimized network driversHostname id HWType runJob starter accounter Testing the installation # /opt/parastation/bin/testnodes -np nodes # /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin -s -c listParaStation5 pscom communication library Insight ParaStation5Directory /proc/sys/ps4/state # echo 10 /proc/sys/ps4/state/ResendTimeout# cat /proc/sys/ps4/state/connections Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local Controlling process placementUsing non-ParaStationapplications Using the ParaStation5 queuing facilityExporting environment variables for a task Export LDPRELOAD=/opt/parastation/lib64/libp4tcp.so Controlling ParaStation5 communication pathsPspshm or Pspsharedmem Authentication within ParaStation5PSPP4S or PSPP4SOCK Export PSPLIB=/opt/parastation/lib64/libpscomopenib.soSingle system view Homogeneous user ID spaceParallel shell tool Nodes and CPUsIntegrating external queuing systems Integration with AFSTok2env PSIRARGPRE0=/some/path/env2tokMulticasts Copying files in parallel Using ParaStation accounting# UseMCast Route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev ethXUsing memory binding Using ParaStation process pinningChanging the default ports for psid8 Spawning processes belonging to all groupsPort Problem psiadmin returns error TroubleshootingProblem node shown as down Problem bad performance Problem cannot start parallel taskProblem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down Problem cannot start process on frontendProblem psid does not startup, reports port in use Problem pssh failsProblem processes cannot access files on remote nodes Reference Pages ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Parastation.conf InstallDir inst-dir , InstallationDir inst-dirDescription ParametersStartscript SetupscriptStopscript StatusscriptOpenib P4sockMvapi ElanNrOfNodes num Accounter$GENERATE 1-96 node$0,2 $0 Node node17 16 HWType ethernet p4sock starter yes runJobs noDeadInterval num SelectTime timeLogLevel num MCastGroup group-numCPUTime time Core sizeDataSize size MemLock sizeProc CPUmap map Processes maxprocsStatusTimeout ms RdpTimeout msRdpClosedTimeout ms RdpResendTimeout msSee also ErrorsParaStation5 Administrators Guide Synopsis PsiadminOptions Standard Input Standard ErrorStandard Output Extended descriptionAll ExitAllproc cnt count Down Count hw hwHardware LoadSummary max max RdpQuit User nodes Accounters nodesGroup nodes Maxproc nodesFreeOnSuspend nodes Master nodesHandleOldBins nodes NodesSort nodesRlrss nodes Cpumap nodesStatusTimeout nodes RdpTimeout nodesRdpClosedTimeout nodes RdpResendTimeout nodesRestart nodes Resolve nodesPsiddebug mask nodes Selecttime time nodesPattern Name Description HandleOldBins 0 1 nodes Rdpmaxretrans val nodes StatusTimeout ms nodes RdpTimeout ms nodesRdpClosedTimeout ms nodes RdpResendTimeout ms nodesQuiet FilesNormal VerbosePsid Debug=level Configfile=fileLogfile=file Filename TestconfigNum ? , --usage Show a help messageParaStation5 Administrators Guide Np num TestnodesCnt num MapParaStation5 Administrators Guide Testpse -npnum TestpseParaStation5 Administrators Guide Sock P4statNet ?,--helpParaStation5 Administrators Guide Add P4tcpDelete ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Pattern Description PsaccounterCoredir=dir Dumpcore?, --help Var/account/yyyymmdd Accounting files, one per dayPsaccview Lu,--ltotuser Lj,--ljobsLg,--ltotgroup Ls,--ltotsumAqtime CpuweightCputime EndInitialization file Mlisten ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Appendix A. Quick Installation Guide # chkconfig -a /etc/init.d/parastation # /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin psiadmin addTesting Appendix B. ParaStation license Page Page Page # psiadmin -s Building and installing ParaStation5 packagesAppendix C. Upgrading ParaStation4 to ParaStation5 Changes to the runtime environmentPage ARP GlossarySee ParaStation Logger To share a common address space within a node ParaStation5 Administrators Guide