Contents
Administrators Guide
ParaStation5 Administrators Guide
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Table of Contents
Problem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down
Introduction
History of ParaStation
About this document
Libraries
Technical overview
Runtime daemon
Kernel modules
License
Prerequisites
Installation
Hardware
Software
Directory structure
Kernel version
Man
Installation via RPM packages
Getting the ParaStation5 RPM packages
Mpi2, mpi2-intel, mpi2-pgi, mpi2-psc
Compiling the ParaStation5 packages from source
Installing the RPMs
File Version
Etc/init.d/xinetd reload
Installing the documentation
ParaStation entries
# rpm -Uv psdoc-5.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
Installing MPI
Further steps
# rpm -Uv psmpi2.5.0.0-1.i586.rpm
Uninstalling ParaStation5
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Configuration
Configuration of the ParaStation system
Define Number of nodes
# /opt/parastation/bin/testconfig
Enable optimized network drivers
Hostname id HWType runJob starter accounter
Testing the installation
# /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin -s -c list
# /opt/parastation/bin/testnodes -np nodes
Insight ParaStation5
ParaStation5 pscom communication library
Directory /proc/sys/ps4/state
# echo 10 /proc/sys/ps4/state/ResendTimeout
# cat /proc/sys/ps4/state/connections
Controlling process placement
Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local
Using non-ParaStationapplications
Using the ParaStation5 queuing facility
Exporting environment variables for a task
Controlling ParaStation5 communication paths
Export LDPRELOAD=/opt/parastation/lib64/libp4tcp.so
PSPP4S or PSPP4SOCK
Authentication within ParaStation5
Pspshm or Pspsharedmem
Export PSPLIB=/opt/parastation/lib64/libpscomopenib.so
Parallel shell tool
Homogeneous user ID space
Single system view
Nodes and CPUs
Tok2env
Integration with AFS
Integrating external queuing systems
PSIRARGPRE0=/some/path/env2tok
Multicasts
# UseMCast
Using ParaStation accounting
Copying files in parallel
Route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev ethX
Changing the default ports for psid8
Using ParaStation process pinning
Using memory binding
Spawning processes belonging to all groups
Port
Problem psiadmin returns error
Troubleshooting
Problem node shown as down
Problem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down
Problem cannot start parallel task
Problem bad performance
Problem cannot start process on frontend
Problem pssh fails
Problem psid does not startup, reports port in use
Problem processes cannot access files on remote nodes
Reference Pages
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Description
InstallDir inst-dir , InstallationDir inst-dir
Parastation.conf
Parameters
Stopscript
Setupscript
Startscript
Statusscript
Mvapi
P4sock
Openib
Elan
Accounter
NrOfNodes num
Node node17 16 HWType ethernet p4sock starter yes runJobs no
$GENERATE 1-96 node$0,2 $0
LogLevel num
SelectTime time
DeadInterval num
MCastGroup group-num
DataSize size
Core size
CPUTime time
MemLock size
Proc
Processes maxprocs
CPUmap map
RdpClosedTimeout ms
RdpTimeout ms
StatusTimeout ms
RdpResendTimeout ms
Errors
See also
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Synopsis
Psiadmin
Options
Standard Output
Standard Error
Standard Input
Extended description
All
Exit
Allproc cnt count
Hardware
Count hw hw
Down
Load
Summary max max
Rdp
Quit
Group nodes
Accounters nodes
User nodes
Maxproc nodes
HandleOldBins nodes
Master nodes
FreeOnSuspend nodes
NodesSort nodes
Cpumap nodes
Rlrss nodes
RdpClosedTimeout nodes
RdpTimeout nodes
StatusTimeout nodes
RdpResendTimeout nodes
Resolve nodes
Restart nodes
Selecttime time nodes
Psiddebug mask nodes
Pattern Name Description
HandleOldBins 0 1 nodes
Rdpmaxretrans val nodes
RdpClosedTimeout ms nodes
RdpTimeout ms nodes
StatusTimeout ms nodes
RdpResendTimeout ms nodes
Normal
Files
Quiet
Verbose
Psid
Debug=level
Configfile=file
Logfile=file
Num
Testconfig
Filename
? , --usage Show a help message
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Cnt num
Testnodes
Np num
Map
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Testpse
Testpse -npnum
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Net
P4stat
Sock
?,--help
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Add
P4tcp
Delete
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Psaccounter
Pattern Description
?, --help
Dumpcore
Coredir=dir
Var/account/yyyymmdd Accounting files, one per day
Psaccview
Lg,--ltotgroup
Lj,--ljobs
Lu,--ltotuser
Ls,--ltotsum
Cputime
Cpuweight
Aqtime
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Initialization file
Mlisten
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Appendix A. Quick Installation Guide
# chkconfig -a /etc/init.d/parastation
# /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin psiadmin add
Testing
Appendix B. ParaStation license
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Appendix C. Upgrading ParaStation4 to ParaStation5
Building and installing ParaStation5 packages
# psiadmin -s
Changes to the runtime environment
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Glossary
ARP
See ParaStation Logger
To share a common address space within a node
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