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Administrator's Guide
Release 5.0.7-4
August 2011
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Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Technical overview
- 3. Installation
- 4. Configuration
- 5. Insight ParaStation MPI
- ParaStation
pscomcommunication library - ParaStation protocol p4sock
- Controlling process placement
- Using the ParaStation MPI queuing facility
- Exporting environment variables for a task
- Using non-ParaStation MPI applications
- ParaStation MPI TCP bypass
- Controlling ParaStation MPI communication paths
- Authentication within ParaStation MPI
- Homogeneous user ID space
- Single system view
- Parallel shell tool
- Nodes and CPUs
- Integration with AFS
- Integrating external queuing systems
- Multicasts
- Copying files in parallel
- Using ParaStation MPI accounting
- Using ParaStation MPI process pinning
- Using memory binding
- Spawning processes belonging to all groups
- Changing the default ports for psid(8)
- Relocating packages during installation
- ParaStation
- 6. Troubleshooting
- Problem: psiadmin returns error
- Problem: node shown as "down"
- Problem: cannot start parallel task
- Problem: bad performance
- Problem: different groups of nodes are seen as up or down
- Problem: cannot start process on front end
- Warning issued on task startup
- Problem: pssh fails
- Problem: psid does not startup, reports port in use
- Problem: processes cannot access files on remote nodes
- Warning: PSI barrier timeout
- I. Reference Pages
- parastation.conf — the ParaStation MPI configuration file
- psiadmin — the ParaStation MPI administration and management tool
- psid — the ParaStation MPI daemon. The organizer of the ParaStation MPI software architecture.
- test_config — verify the ParaStation4 configuration file.
- test_nodes — test physical connections within a cluster.
- test_pse — test virtual connections within a cluster.
- p4stat —
display information about the
p4sockprotocol. - p4tcp — configure the ParaStation4 TCP bypass.
- psaccounter — Write accounting information from the ParaStation MPI psid to the accounting files.
- psaccview — Print ParaStation MPI accounting information.
- mlisten — display multicast pings from the ParaStation MPI daemon psid(8)
- A. Quick Installation Guide
- B. ParaStation license
- C. Upgrading ParaStation4 to ParaStation MPI, version 5
- Glossary