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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 Technical overview Runtime daemonLibraries Kernel modules License Prerequisites InstallationHardware Software Directory structureKernel version Installation via RPM packages Getting the ParaStation5 RPM packagesMan Mpi2, mpi2-intel, mpi2-pgi, mpi2-psc Compiling the ParaStation5 packages from source Installing the RPMsFile Version Etc/init.d/xinetd reload Installing the documentationParaStation entries Installing MPI Further steps# rpm -Uv psdoc-5.0.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uv psmpi2.5.0.0-1.i586.rpm Uninstalling ParaStation5 ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Configuration Configuration of the ParaStation systemCopy template Define Number of nodes # /opt/parastation/bin/testconfig Enable optimized network driversHostname id HWType runJob starter accounter Testing the installation # /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin -s -c list # /opt/parastation/bin/testnodes -np nodes Insight ParaStation5 ParaStation5 pscom communication library Directory /proc/sys/ps4/state # echo 10 /proc/sys/ps4/state/ResendTimeout# cat /proc/sys/ps4/state/connections Controlling process placement Directory /proc/sys/ps4/local Using non-ParaStationapplications Using the ParaStation5 queuing facilityExporting environment variables for a task Controlling ParaStation5 communication paths Export LDPRELOAD=/opt/parastation/lib64/libp4tcp.so Authentication within ParaStation5 Pspshm or PspsharedmemPSPP4S or PSPP4SOCK Export PSPLIB=/opt/parastation/lib64/libpscomopenib.so Homogeneous user ID space Single system viewParallel shell tool Nodes and CPUs Integration with AFS Integrating external queuing systemsTok2env PSIRARGPRE0=/some/path/env2tok Multicasts Using ParaStation accounting Copying files in parallel# UseMCast Route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev ethX Using ParaStation process pinning Using memory bindingChanging the default ports for psid8 Spawning processes belonging to all groups Port Problem psiadmin returns error TroubleshootingProblem node shown as down Problem cannot start parallel task Problem bad performanceProblem different groups of nodes are seen as up or down 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 InstallDir inst-dir , InstallationDir inst-dir Parastation.confDescription Parameters Setupscript StartscriptStopscript Statusscript P4sock OpenibMvapi Elan Accounter NrOfNodes num Node node17 16 HWType ethernet p4sock starter yes runJobs no $GENERATE 1-96 node$0,2 $0 SelectTime time DeadInterval numLogLevel num MCastGroup group-num Core size CPUTime timeDataSize size MemLock size Proc Processes maxprocs CPUmap map RdpTimeout ms StatusTimeout msRdpClosedTimeout ms RdpResendTimeout ms Errors See also ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Synopsis PsiadminOptions Standard Error Standard InputStandard Output Extended description All ExitAllproc cnt count Count hw hw DownHardware Load Summary max max RdpQuit Accounters nodes User nodesGroup nodes Maxproc nodes Master nodes FreeOnSuspend nodesHandleOldBins nodes NodesSort nodes Cpumap nodes Rlrss nodes RdpTimeout nodes StatusTimeout nodesRdpClosedTimeout nodes RdpResendTimeout nodes Resolve nodes Restart nodes Selecttime time nodes Psiddebug mask nodes Pattern Name Description HandleOldBins 0 1 nodes Rdpmaxretrans val nodes RdpTimeout ms nodes StatusTimeout ms nodesRdpClosedTimeout ms nodes RdpResendTimeout ms nodes Files QuietNormal Verbose Psid Debug=level Configfile=fileLogfile=file Testconfig FilenameNum ? , --usage Show a help message ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Testnodes Np numCnt num Map ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Testpse Testpse -npnum ParaStation5 Administrators Guide P4stat SockNet ?,--help ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Add P4tcpDelete ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Psaccounter Pattern Description Dumpcore Coredir=dir?, --help Var/account/yyyymmdd Accounting files, one per day Psaccview Lj,--ljobs Lu,--ltotuserLg,--ltotgroup Ls,--ltotsum Cpuweight AqtimeCputime End Initialization file Mlisten ParaStation5 Administrators Guide Appendix A. Quick Installation Guide # chkconfig -a /etc/init.d/parastation # /opt/parastation/bin/psiadmin psiadmin addTesting Appendix B. ParaStation license Page Page Page Building and installing ParaStation5 packages # psiadmin -sAppendix C. Upgrading ParaStation4 to ParaStation5 Changes to the runtime environmentPage Glossary ARP See ParaStation Logger To share a common address space within a node ParaStation5 Administrators Guide