— User's Guide

Release 5.0.7-4

August 2011

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Table of Contents

1. Preface
About this document
This book's audience
ParaStation MPI overview
The history of ParaStation MPI
2. Overview
The communication subsystem
Communication paths
Communication interfaces
The cluster management facility
Node management
Fault tolerance
Process management
Job control & error management
Integration into existing environments
3. Starting up programs
Spawning processes
Placing processes onto nodes
Redirecting standard input and output
Spawning the environment
Starting up serial tasks
Starting up administrative tasks
Using the ParaStation MPI queuing facility
Suspending ParaStation MPI tasks
4. Using MPI
Building MPI applications
Starting MPI applications
Selecting Compiler Alternatives for MPI Programs
Compiler & Linker Wrapper scripts
5. Building native ParaStation MPI applications
Using the management facility
The root process
The master process
Client processes
Using the PSPort interface
6. ParaStation MPI variables & application performance
Scope and audience
ParaStation MPI run-time tuning parameters
General scaling tuning variables
InfiniBand specific tuning variables
MPI tuning for connected service types - addressing scalability problems with InfiniBand
I. Reference Pages
mpiexec — run a ParaStation MPI program
mpirun_chp4 — run a MPIch/P4 MPI program on a ParaStation MPI cluster
mpirun_chgm — run a MPIch/GM MPI program on a ParaStation MPI cluster
mpirun_elan — run a QsNet MPI program on a ParaStation MPI cluster.
mpirun-ipath-ps — run a InfiniPath™ MPI program on a ParaStation MPI cluster.
mpirun_openib — run a MVAPIch MPI program on a ParaStation MPI cluster.
psh — run a command on or copy a file to multiple nodes.
psmstart — start a program on a remote node
pssh — run a command on a remote node.
pscp — copy a file to multiple nodes in parallel.
process_placement — Process placement strategies within ParaStation MPI
ps_environmentParaStation environment variables
Glossary

List of Figures

2.1. The ParaStation MPI network setup.