HP XC System 2.x Software Performing Other Common User Tasks, Getting System Help and Information

2.3.6 Getting Information About Your Jobs

You can obtain information about your running or completed jobs with the bjobs and bhist commands.

bjobs	Checks the status of a running job (Section 7.5.2)
bhist	Gets brief or full information about finished jobs (Section 7.5.3)

The components of the actual SLURM allocation command can be seen with the bjobs -land bhist -lLSF commands.

2.3.7 Stopping and Suspending Jobs

You can suspend or stop your jobs with the bstop and bkill commands.

•You can use the LSF bstop command to stop or suspend an LSF job.

•You can use the LSF bkill command to kill an LSF job.

2.3.8Resuming Suspended Jobs

You can use the LSF bresume command to resume a stopped or suspended job.

2.4 Performing Other Common User Tasks

This section contains general information and assorted topics about using the HP XC system.

2.4.1 Determining the LSF Cluster Name and LSF Execution Host

The lsid command returns the LSF cluster name, the LSF Version, and the name of the LSF execution host.

$ lsid

Platform LSF HPC 6.0 for SLURM, Sep 23 2004

Copyright 1992-2004 Platform Computing Corporation

My cluster name is hptclsf

My master name is lsfhost.localdomain

In this example, hptclsf is the LSF cluster name, and lsfhost.localdomain is the node where LSF is installed and runs (LSF execution host).

2.4.2 Installing Third-Party Software

If you intend to download or install a third-party software package, contact your system administrator to assure that you perform the proper installation and set up requirements on the HP XC system. For example, if you install a 3rd-party software package into a private directory, you should create a modulefile for it. Refer to Section 2.2.9 for information about creating a modulefile.

2.5 Getting System Help and Information

In addition to the hardcopy documentation described in the preface section of this manual (About This Document), the HP XC system also provides system help and information in the form on online manpages.

Manpages provide online reference and command information from the system command line. Manpages are supplied with the HP XC system for standard HP XC components, Linux user commands, LSF commands, SLURM commands, and other software components that are

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