HP XC System 3.x Software Table of Contents, 2 Using the System, 1 Overview of the User Environment

Table of Contents
About This Document...................................................................................	13
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................	13
Document Organization.........................................................................................................................	13
HP XC Information.................................................................................................................................	14
For More Information........................................................................................................................	15
Supplementary Information...............................................................................................................	15
Manpages......................................................................................................................................	16
Related Information...............................................................................................................................	16
Typographic Conventions.......................................................................................................................	18
HP Encourages Your Comments..............................................................................................................	18
1 Overview of the User Environment
System Architecture...............................................................................................................................	19
HP XC System Software....................................................................................................................	19
Operating System............................................................................................................................	19
Node Platforms................................................................................................................................	19
Node Specialization........................................................................................................................	20
Storage and I/O.............................................................................................................................	20
File System......................................................................................................................................	21
System Interconnect Network.............................................................................................................	22
Network Address Translation (NAT)....................................................................................................	22
Determining System Configuration Information..........................................................................................	22
User Environment..................................................................................................................................	23
LVS................................................................................................................................................	23
Modules.........................................................................................................................................	23
Commands.....................................................................................................................................	23
Application Development Environment.....................................................................................................	24
Parallel Applications.........................................................................................................................	24
Serial Applications...........................................................................................................................	24
Run-Time Environment............................................................................................................................	24
SLURM...........................................................................................................................................	24
Load Sharing Facility (LSF-HPC)..........................................................................................................	25
Standard LSF...................................................................................................................................	25
How LSF-HPC and SLURM Interact......................................................................................................	25
HP-MPI...........................................................................................................................................	26
Components, Tools, Compilers, Libraries, and Debuggers...........................................................................	26
2 Using the System
Logging In to the System........................................................................................................................	27
LVS Login Routing............................................................................................................................	27
Using the Secure Shell to Log In.........................................................................................................	27
Overview of Launching and Managing Jobs.............................................................................................	27
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................	28
Getting Information About Queues.....................................................................................................	28
Getting Information About Resources..................................................................................................	28
Getting Information About System Partitions.........................................................................................	29
Launching Jobs................................................................................................................................	29
Getting Information About Your Jobs..................................................................................................	29
Stopping and Suspending Jobs..........................................................................................................	29
Resuming Suspended Jobs................................................................................................................	29
Performing Other Common User Tasks.....................................................................................................	29
Determining the LSF Cluster Name and the LSF Execution Host...............................................................	29
Getting System Help and Information.......................................................................................................	30

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