6.4.6.1

I/O Commands

6-8

6.4.6.2

I/O Redirection Alternatives

6-9

6.4.7

srun Constraint Options

6-10

6.4.8

srun Environment Variables

6-12

6.4.9

Using srun with HP-MPI

6-12

6.4.10

Using srun with LSF

6-12

6.5

Monitoring Jobs with the squeue Command

6-12

6.6

Killing Jobs with the scancel Command

6-13

6.7

Getting System Information with the sinfo Command

6-13

6.8

Job Accounting

6-14

6.9

Fault Tolerance

6-14

6.10

Security

6-14

7 Using LSF

7.1

Introduction to LSF in the HP XC Environment

7-1

7.1.1

Overview of LSF

7-1

7.1.2

Topology Support

7-2

7.1.3

Notes on LSF-HPC

7-3

7.1.4

How LSF and SLURM Launch and Manage a Job

7-4

7.1.5

Differences Between LSF on HP XC and Standard LSF

7-6

7.1.6

Notes About Using LSF in the HP XC Environment

7-7

7.1.6.1

Job Startup and Job Control

7-7

7.1.6.2

Preemption Support

7-7

7.2

Determining Execution Host

7-7

7.3

Determining Available System Resources

7-7

7.3.1

Getting Status of LSF

7-7

7.3.2

Getting Information About LSF-HPC Execution Host Node

7-8

7.3.3

Getting Host Load Information

7-8

7.3.4

Checking LSF System Queues

7-9

7.3.5

Getting Information About the lsf Partition

7-9

7.4

Submitting Jobs

7-9

7.4.1

Summary of the LSF bsub Command Format

7-10

7.4.2

LSF-SLURM External Scheduler

7-11

7.4.3

Submitting a Serial Job

7-13

7.4.4

Submitting a Job in Parallel

7-13

7.4.5

Submitting an HP-MPI Job

7-13

7.4.6

Submitting a Batch Job or Job Script

7-14

7.4.6.1

Examples

7-15

7.4.7

Submitting a Job from a Non-HP XC Host

7-16

7.5

Getting Information About Jobs

7-17

7.5.1

Getting Job Allocation Information

7-17

7.5.1.1

Job Allocation Information for a Running Job

7-17

7.5.1.2

Job Allocation Information for a Finished Job

7-18

7.5.2

Checking Status of a Job

7-18

7.5.3

Viewing a Job’s Historical Information

7-19

7.6

Working Interactively Within an LSF-HPC Allocation

7-20

7.6.1

Submitting an Interactive Job to Launch the xterm Program

7-20

7.6.2

Submitting an Interactive Job to Launch a Shell

7-22

7.7

LSF Equivalents of SLURM srun Options

7-23

8 Using HP-MPI

8.1

Overview

8-1

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