HP XC System 3.x Software 10 Advanced Topics

Getting Information About the lsf Partition......................................................................................	76
Submitting Jobs...............................................................................................................................	77
Summary of the LSF bsub Command Format...................................................................................	77
LSF-SLURM External Scheduler......................................................................................................	78
Submitting a Job from a Non-HP XC Host......................................................................................	79
Getting Information About Jobs..........................................................................................................	80
Getting Job Allocation Information................................................................................................	80
Job Allocation Information for a Running Job.............................................................................	80
Job Allocation Information for a Finished Job............................................................................	81
Examining the Status of a Job.......................................................................................................	81
Viewing the Historical Information for a Job....................................................................................	82
Translating SLURM and LSF-HPC JOBIDs.............................................................................................	83
Working Interactively Within an LSF-HPC Allocation.............................................................................	84
LSF-HPC Equivalents of SLURM srun Options........................................................................................	86
10 Advanced Topics
Enabling Remote Execution with OpenSSH...............................................................................................	91
Running an X Terminal Session from a Remote Node.................................................................................	91
Using the GNU Parallel Make Capability.................................................................................................	93
Example Procedure 1.......................................................................................................................	95
Example Procedure 2.......................................................................................................................	95
Example Procedure 3.......................................................................................................................	96
Local Disks on Compute Nodes..............................................................................................................	96
I/O Performance Considerations.............................................................................................................	96
Shared File View.............................................................................................................................	97
Private File View..............................................................................................................................	97
Communication Between Nodes.............................................................................................................	97
A Examples................................................................................................	99
Building and Running a Serial Application...............................................................................................	99
Launching a Serial Interactive Shell Through LSF-HPC.................................................................................	99
Running LSF-HPC Jobs with a SLURM Allocation Request...........................................................................	100
Example 1. Two cores on Any Two Nodes........................................................................................	100
Example 2. Four cores on Two Specific Nodes...................................................................................	101
Launching a Parallel Interactive Shell Through LSF-HPC.............................................................................	101
Submitting a Simple Job Script with LSF-HPC...........................................................................................	103
Submitting an Interactive Job with LSF-HPC.............................................................................................	104
Submitting an HP-MPI Job with LSF-HPC.................................................................................................	105
Using a Resource Requirements String in an LSF-HPC Command................................................................	107
Glossary..................................................................................................	109
Index.......................................................................................................	115

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