HP Cluster Test Software manual

HP Cluster Test Administration Guide

HP Part Number: 5900-3310

Published: January 2014

Edition: 6

Contents

Page Page Contents Page 1 Varieties of Cluster Test CT Image CT Image using a network RPM 2 The Cluster Test GUI Starting Cluster Test Files generated by Cluster Test Running cluster tests Page Page Configuration settings Running tests in a batch Using scripts to run tests Page Test descriptions Monitoring tests and viewing results The test output window Page Performance analysis Test report Checking the InfiniBand fabric The Cluster Test toolbar menus 3 The accelerator test GUI Starting accelerator tests Files generated by accelerator test Running accelerator tests SGEMM: Single Precision General Matrix Multiply Test DGEMM: Double Precision General Matrix Multiply Test BandWidth: GPU Bandwidth Test Memory Test Thermal Test Nvidia Linpack: CUDA Accelerated Linpack Benchmark 4 Cluster Test procedure as recommended by HP Additional software Configuring Cluster Test when using RPM Accelerator test procedure Page The Cluster Test procedure Page Page Page 5 The performance monitor The performance monitor utility Page The xperf utility 6 Cluster Test tools Hardware Inventory Firmware Summary Server health check Excluding the head node from tests Disk Scrubber Page 7 Running tests in parallel 8 Creating and changing per node files An example per-nodedirectory An example cloned per-nodedirectory 9 NFS performance tuning 10 Troubleshooting Detecting new hardware Troubleshooting Cluster Test 11 Support and other resources Scope of this document Intended audience Contacting HP New and changed information in this edition Related information Typographic conventions Customer self repair Page A Useful files and directories B Utility commands analyze apply_new_model_updates archive_logs checkadm conrep cpu_rate getMP hponcfg ib_fabric_check Page inspect_ib_fabric.pl Page Page ipmitool light list_messages pdsh run_cluster_script.pl setMP C Sample test output CrissCross Page Test4 Pallas Page Page Stream Page Disk Test Linpack Page Page Page D Documentation feedback Glossary Index