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Administrators Guide ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Info@par-tec.com Table of Contents Problem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down Introduction History of ParaStation About this document Libraries Technical overviewRuntime daemon Kernel modules License Hardware InstallationPrerequisites Kernel version Directory structureSoftware Man Installation via RPM packagesGetting the ParaStation5 RPM packages Mpi2, mpi2-intel, mpi2-pgi, mpi2-psc File Version Installing the RPMsCompiling the ParaStation5 packages from source ParaStation entries Installing the documentationEtc/init.d/xinetd reload # rpm -Uv psdoc-5.0.0-1.noarch.rpm Installing MPIFurther steps # rpm -Uv psmpi2.5.0.0-1.i586.rpm Uninstalling ParaStation5 ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Copy template ConfigurationConfiguration of the ParaStation system Define Number of nodes Hostname id HWType runJob starter accounter Enable optimized network drivers# /opt/parastation/bin/testconfig Testing the installation # /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin -s -c list # /opt/parastation/bin/testnodes -np nodes Insight ParaStation5 ParaStation5 pscom communication library # cat /proc/sys/ps4/state/connections # echo 10 /proc/sys/ps4/state/ResendTimeoutDirectory /proc/sys/ps4/state Controlling process placement Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local Exporting environment variables for a task Using the ParaStation5 queuing facilityUsing non-ParaStationapplications Controlling ParaStation5 communication paths Export LDPRELOAD=/opt/parastation/lib64/libp4tcp.so PSPP4S or PSPP4SOCK Authentication within ParaStation5Pspshm or Pspsharedmem Export PSPLIB=/opt/parastation/lib64/libpscomopenib.so Parallel shell tool Homogeneous user ID spaceSingle system view Nodes and CPUs Tok2env Integration with AFSIntegrating external queuing systems PSIRARGPRE0=/some/path/env2tok Multicasts # UseMCast Using ParaStation accountingCopying files in parallel Route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev ethX Changing the default ports for psid8 Using ParaStation process pinningUsing memory binding Spawning processes belonging to all groups Port Problem node shown as down TroubleshootingProblem psiadmin returns error Problem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down Problem cannot start parallel taskProblem bad performance Problem cannot start process on frontend Problem pssh fails Problem psid does not startup, reports port in use Problem processes cannot access files on remote nodes Reference Pages ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Description InstallDir inst-dir , InstallationDir inst-dirParastation.conf Parameters Stopscript SetupscriptStartscript Statusscript Mvapi P4sockOpenib Elan Accounter NrOfNodes num Node node17 16 HWType ethernet p4sock starter yes runJobs no $GENERATE 1-96 node$0,2 $0 LogLevel num SelectTime timeDeadInterval num MCastGroup group-num DataSize size Core sizeCPUTime time MemLock size Proc Processes maxprocs CPUmap map RdpClosedTimeout ms RdpTimeout msStatusTimeout ms RdpResendTimeout ms Errors See also ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Options PsiadminSynopsis Standard Output Standard ErrorStandard Input Extended description Allproc cnt count ExitAll Hardware Count hw hwDown Load Quit RdpSummary max max Group nodes Accounters nodesUser nodes Maxproc nodes HandleOldBins nodes Master nodesFreeOnSuspend nodes NodesSort nodes Cpumap nodes Rlrss nodes RdpClosedTimeout nodes RdpTimeout nodesStatusTimeout nodes RdpResendTimeout nodes Resolve nodes Restart nodes Selecttime time nodes Psiddebug mask nodes Pattern Name Description HandleOldBins 0 1 nodes Rdpmaxretrans val nodes RdpClosedTimeout ms nodes RdpTimeout ms nodesStatusTimeout ms nodes RdpResendTimeout ms nodes Normal FilesQuiet Verbose Psid Logfile=file Configfile=fileDebug=level Num TestconfigFilename ? , --usage Show a help message ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Cnt num TestnodesNp num Map ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Testpse Testpse -npnum ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Net P4statSock ?,--help ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Delete P4tcpAdd ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Psaccounter Pattern Description ?, --help DumpcoreCoredir=dir Var/account/yyyymmdd Accounting files, one per day Psaccview Lg,--ltotgroup Lj,--ljobsLu,--ltotuser Ls,--ltotsum Cputime CpuweightAqtime End Initialization file Mlisten ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Appendix A. Quick Installation Guide Testing # /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin psiadmin add# chkconfig -a /etc/init.d/parastation Appendix B. ParaStation license Page Page Page Appendix C. Upgrading ParaStation4 to ParaStation5 Building and installing ParaStation5 packages# psiadmin -s Changes to the runtime environmentPage Glossary ARP See ParaStation Logger To share a common address space within a node ParaStation5 Administrators Guide