9.7 Job Accounting | 84 |
9.8 Fault Tolerance | 84 |
9.9 Security | 84 |
10 Using LSF | 85 |
10.1 Information for LSF | 85 |
10.2 Overview of LSF Integrated with SLURM | 86 |
10.3 Differences Between LSF and LSF Integrated with SLURM | 88 |
10.4 Job Terminology | 89 |
10.5 Using LSF Integrated with SLURM in the HP XC Environment | 91 |
10.5.1 Useful Commands | 91 |
10.5.2 Job Startup and Job Control | 91 |
10.5.3 Preemption | 91 |
10.6 Submitting Jobs | 91 |
10.7 | 92 |
10.8 How LSF and SLURM Launch and Manage a Job | 92 |
10.9 Determining the LSF Execution Host | 94 |
10.10 Determining Available System Resources | 94 |
10.10.1 Examining System Core Status | 95 |
10.10.2 Getting Information About the LSF Execution Host Node | 95 |
10.10.3 Getting Host Load Information | 96 |
10.10.4 Examining System Queues | 96 |
10.10.5 Getting Information About the lsf Partition | 96 |
10.11 Getting Information About Jobs | 96 |
10.11.1 Getting Job Allocation Information | 97 |
10.11.2 Examining the Status of a Job | 98 |
10.11.3 Viewing the Historical Information for a Job | 99 |
10.12 Translating SLURM and LSF JOBIDs | 100 |
10.13 Working Interactively Within an Allocation | 101 |
10.14 LSF Equivalents of SLURM srun Options | 103 |
11 Advanced Topics | 107 |
11.1 Enabling Remote Execution with OpenSSH | 107 |
11.2 Running an X Terminal Session from a Remote Node | 107 |
11.3 Using the GNU Parallel Make Capability | 109 |
11.3.1 Example Procedure 1 | 111 |
11.3.2 Example Procedure 2 | 111 |
11.3.3 Example Procedure 3 | 112 |
11.4 Local Disks on Compute Nodes | 112 |
11.5 I/O Performance Considerations | 113 |
11.5.1 Shared File View | 113 |
11.5.2 Private File View | 113 |
11.6 Communication Between Nodes | 113 |
11.7 Using MPICH on the HP XC System | 113 |
11.7.1 Using MPICH with SLURM Allocation | 114 |
11.7.2 Using MPICH with LSF Allocation | 114 |
A Examples | 115 |
A.1 Building and Running a Serial Application | 115 |
A.2 Launching a Serial Interactive Shell Through LSF | 115 |
A.3 Running LSF Jobs with a SLURM Allocation Request | 116 |
A.3.1 Example 1. Two Cores on Any Two Nodes | 116 |
A.3.2 Example 2. Four Cores on Two Specific Nodes | 117 |
6Table of Contents
