PAR Technologies V5 manual Table of Contents

Table of Contents
1. Introduction	1
1.1. What is ParaStation	1
1.2. The history of ParaStation	1
1.3. About this document	2
2. Technical overview	3
2.1. Runtime daemon	3
2.2. Libraries	3
2.3. Kernel modules	3
2.4. License	4
3. Installation	5
3.1. Prerequisites	5
3.2. Directory structure	6
3.3. Installation via RPM packages	7
3.4. Installing the documentation	9
3.5. Installing MPI	10
3.6. Further steps	10
3.7. Uninstalling ParaStation5	11
4. Configuration	13
4.1. Configuration of the ParaStation system	13
4.2. Enable optimized network drivers	14
4.3. Testing the installation	15
5. Insight ParaStation5	17
5.1. ParaStation5 pscom communication library	17
5.2. ParaStation5 protocol p4sock	17
5.2.1. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/state	18
5.2.2. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/ether	18
5.2.3. Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local	19
5.2.4. p4stat	19
5.3. Controlling process placement	19
5.4. Using the ParaStation5 queuing facility	20
5.5. Exporting environment variables for a task	20
5.6. Using non-ParaStationapplications	20
5.7. ParaStation5 TCP bypass	21
5.8. Controlling ParaStation5 communication paths	21
5.9. Authentication within ParaStation5	22
5.10. Homogeneous user ID space	23
5.11. Single system view	23
5.12. Parallel shell tool	23
5.13. Nodes and CPUs	23
5.14. Integration with AFS	24
5.15. Integrating external queuing systems	24
5.15.1. Integration with PBS PRO	25
5.15.2. Integration with OpenPBS	25
5.15.3. Integration with Torque	25
5.15.4. Integration with LSF	25
5.15.5. Integration with LoadLeveler	25
5.16. Multicasts	25
5.17. Copying files in parallel	26
5.18. Using ParaStation accounting	26
5.19. Using ParaStation process pinning	27
5.20. Using memory binding	27
5.21. Spawning processes belonging to all groups	27
5.22. Changing the default ports for psid(8)	27
6. Troubleshooting	29
6.1. Problem: psiadmin returns error	29

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