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1. Typical usage is described in what follows The XC System can be integrated into an existing network environment and presented to users including system administrators as a single hostname and IP address on the external network When a user logs into the XC system the login session is directed to one of several nodes which have been enabled to accept login sessions Upon logging into the system the users may then develop execute and manage their applications For development the environment consists of standard Linux tools such as gcc and gdb and other third party as well as optimized parallel libraries that are part of the XC System Software These libraries include the HP MLIB math library and the HP MPI message passing library HP MPI provides binary compatibility across interconnects The implementations of HP MPI and HP MLIB may invoke low level interconnect specitic libraries such as the Quadrics QSNet or the Myricom GM libraries but entirely isolate the user from the requirement to directly access those libraries or even to be aware of them All nodes may be used to run user applications but one or more of the nodes may also be used for other purposes such as login services job launch and system administration Each node runs a full Linux environment For job execution and policy centric workload management XC System Software provides an integrated resource management scheduling and job launch mechanism based on the underlying technologie
2. The XC System is typically managed from the head node using the XC Management Network One of the key system control utilities is Parallel Distributed Shell pdsh Pdsh is a multithreaded remote shell client used to execute commands on multiple remote hosts in parallel The implementation of pdsh relies on the use of ssh as the main remote shell service Separate facilities are provided on the head node for access to console commands Subsequent to initial configuration the administrator can perform and log console commands such as starting stopping and booting nodes from the head node communicating over the console branch of the XC Administrative Network the XC Console Network For Cluster Platform 3000 Intel Xeon and Cluster Platform 6000 systems Intel Itanium this is implemented with the XC Console Management Facility CMF which was adopted from HP AlphaServer SC System Software and depends on the fact that the XC Console Network is connected to the remote management port on each of the nodes For Cluster Platform 4000 systems AMD Opteron the console connections are made to the management port on each node and the administrator performs console operations using telnet Console logging is not available for the Cluster Plattorm 4000 systems CA invent DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 6 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features Serviceability XC System Software includes some core com
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4. BA577A BA578A 100 BA578A 200 BA578A 300 BA578A 400 BA579A 100 BA579A 200 BA579A 300 BA579A 400 BA580A 100 BA580A 200 BA580A 300 BA580A 400 HP XC LTU HP XC HP XC or OPTERON MEDIA MANUAL or ITANIUM MEDIA MANUAL LTU or XEON MEDIA MANUAL LTU HP XC OPTERON MEDIA HP XC TANIUM MEDIA HP XC XEON MEDIA HP XC ADMIN MANUAL HP XC USER MANUAL HP XC 1 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT HP XC 1 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT HP XC 1 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT HP XC 1 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT HP XC 16 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT HP XC 16 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT HP XC 16 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT HP XC 16 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT HP XC 128 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT HP XC 128 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT 128 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT 128 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW HP XC HP XC SUPPORT Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 21 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Ordering Information Distribution Media XC System Software including sources for Open Source software is available on DVDs and its documentation is available on CD ROM The DVDs and CD ROM are both included in the architecture specitic media kits XC System Software V2 0A Media Kit for AMD Opteron BA525A 100 XC System Software V2 0 Media Kit for Intel ltanium BA525A 200 and XC System Software V2 0A Media Kit for Intel Xeon BA525A 300 Documentation in printed format can be o
5. Name Unlimited 1 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 1 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 2 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 2 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 16 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 16 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 64 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 64 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 128 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 128 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 256 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 256 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 512 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 512 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 1024 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 1024 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 2048 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 2048 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT Unlimited 4096 processor use license and 3 years software support HP XC 4096 PROC LTU 3 YR SW SUPPORT LICENSES BUNDLED WITH 3 YEARS 24 X 7 SUPPORT AND UPDATES Description Short Product Name Unlimited 1 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software support HP XC 1 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT Unlimited 2 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software support HP XC 2 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT Unlimited 16 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software HP XC 16 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW support SUPPORT Unlimited 64 processor use license and 3 years 24x
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8. desktop backgrounds basic 2 0 14 desktop backgrounds extra 2 0 14 desktop tile utils 0 3 10 desktop printing 0 1 10 15 1 dev 3 3 12 3 1 devlabel 0 48 03 6 dhclient 3 0 1 10 EL3 dhcp 3 0 1 10 EL3 dialog 0 9b 20020814 6 ditfstat 1 31 2 diffutils 2 8 1 8 diskdumputils 0 4 0 1 distcache 0 4 2 9 3 distcache devel 0 4 2 9 3 docbook dtds 1 0 17 2 dos2unix 3 1 15 doststools 2 8 10 doxygen 1 3 5 0 RHEL3 1 dump 0 4b28 7 e2tsprogs 1 32 15 1 e2tsprogs devel 1 32 15 1 eal3 certification 1 1 2 eal3 certification doc 1 1 2 ed 0 2 33 eel2 2 2 4 3 E eject 2 0 13 2 ElectricFence 2 2 2 15 elfutils 0 9 1 3 elfutils devel 0 91 3 elfutils libelf 0 9 1 3 elfutils libelf 0 9 1 3 elfutils libelt devel 0 91 3 elinks 0 4 2 7 emacs 2 1 3 4 enscript 1 6 1 24 4 eog 2 2 2 1 esound 0 2 28 6 ethtool 1 8 3 3 evolution 1 4 5 9 evolution connector 1 4 7 5 expat 1 95 5 6 expat 1 95 5 6 CA invent DA libdbi dbd mysql 0 6 5 5 libelanhosts 0 9 1 3hp libtf2c 3 2 3 49 libgail gnome 1 0 2 1 libgal2 1 99 10 1 libgcc 3 2 3 49 libgcc 3 2 3 49 libgcc ssa 3 5ssa 0 20030801 48 libgcj 3 2 3 49 libgcj 3 2 3 49 libgcj devel 3 2 3 49 libgcj ssa 3 5ssa 0 20030801 48 libgcj ssa devel 3 5ssa 0 20030801 48 libghttp 1 0 9 8 1 libglade2 2 0 1 3 libgnat 3 2 3 49 libgnome 2 2 2 6 libgnomecanvas 2 2 0 2 2 libgnomeprint22 2 2 1 3 5 libgnomeprintui22 2 2 1 3 2 0 libgnomeui 2 2 1 1 libgst 1 6 0 4 libgtop2 2 0 2 3 libIDL 0 8 0 9 libjpeg
9. file systems Intra XC NFS operations can be configured to use either the XC Administrative Network or the XC System Interconnect By using a separate interconnect for administration and I O the XC System administrator is able to isolate user application traffic from administrative operations and monitoring With this separation application YO performance and process communication can be made more predictable while still enabling administrative operations to proceed Alternatively the XC System administrator may prefer to route I O across the administrative network so that the I O has less impact on the synchronicity of parallel applications The XC System Software provides the flexibility to support such administrative needs Any XC System node is permitted to export local files to NFS clients connected to the XC Administrative Network If the node is also connected to an external network local files can be exported to an external NSF client In order to reduce the impact of I O on parallel computations administrators may choose to organize the system so that IYO nodes are separately partitioned trom compute nodes System administrators perform the majority of their administrative tasks from a node designated as the XC head node head node and which is used to initiate booting the XC System through the process of XC cluster discovery This head node is also capable of providing system services through hosting daemons such as the SLURM and LSF masters It
10. is also possible to configure the XC System so that system services are distributed amongst several nodes rather than centralized in a single head node This distribution of services might be advised for reasons of system availability scalability heavy system load and so on The XC System Software installation process is designed to provide the maximum amount of automation with the minimal amount of user intervention Software installation is done by first loading software onto the XC head node and then distributing the system software to the other nodes using the Systemlmager utility This distribution is performed over the XC Administrative Network XC configuration utility software is used during the initial configuration to customize certain system files on each node based on data gathered during the cluster discovery phase and stored in the XC Contiguration and Management Database Subsequent to initial configuration the administrator can perform and log console commands such as starting stopping and booting nodes from the head node using the XC Console Management Facility CMF and communicating over the console branch of the XC Administrative Network CMF is available only on Xeon and Itanium based systems For Opteron based systems the administrator performs console operations using telnet Console logging is not available for the Opteron based systems The administrator uses a single user interface to report statistics and to post events b
11. stream copy stdin stdout and stderr and job control signals SLURM provides capabilities for access control and checks resource limits before scheduling the user s jobs The SLURM srun command is used when submitting jobs to the direct launch partition to allocate resources initiate jobs that run interactively execute jobs submitted by LSF or attach to running jobs Options to srun include the processor count the node count specific nodes to use or avoid nodes that can be shared and so on SLURM also provides an interface sinfo for viewing the state of partitions or nodes for example which nodes are currently available If the user wishes to terminate a job or send an arbitrary signal that is done with the SLURM scancel command which can specify a user a program name a partition job state etc The SLURM squeue command is used to monitor existing SLURM jobs LSF is integrated with SLURM to combine the use of SLURM s extensive launching options and resource knowledge with LSF s powertul scheduling to create a high quality comprehensive workload and resource management system on XC The LSF scheduler obtains all node usage information from SLURM and then uses that information to submit appropriately scheduled jobs to SLURM CA T DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 5 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features The following LSF Version 6 1 features are not supported in XC System Softwa
12. the head node The administrator starts up the Linux installation and when prompted selects from a list a hard drive to be used for installation The administrator also needs to provide some networking information and the root password The installation then proceeds to completion on the head node without any further input from the administrator and without requiring swapping of DVD s or CD s If the user requires additional packages RPMs these can be installed before the cluster configuration is performed After installing software on the head node the configuration phase begins through the process of automated cluster topology discovery a process facilitated through the pre defined wiring schemes for the XC Systems Information gathered during the discovery phase includes network topology console addresses network addresses and the binding between the XC System Interconnect and XC Administrative networks Configuration continues through a simple user interface with information gathered on the roles to be played by various nodes such as NIS data when applicable and so on The configuration data is written to the XC Configuration and Management Database CMDB for subsequent retrieval by various utilities The utilities access the CMDB via SQL commands as provided by MySQL In the next step of the installation a collection of head node system files is assembled for installation on the other nodes This assemblage known as the Base Image is
13. 00 Documentation CD ROMs part numbers AD162A AD163A and AD164A or that are electrically equivalent to such a specification Any other hardware configuration or option may be considered invalid unless the software documentation explicitly states otherwise XC System Software installation instructions can be found in the XC Installation Guide which is part of the XC System Software Administration Documentation Kit Not all Cluster Platform configurations are supported by the XC System Software Conversely there may be customizable hardware configurations that are capable of being supported by the XC System Software For more information on customizable configurations please contact your HP sales representative The following section describes the Cluster Platform configurations that are supported by XC System Software For further details consult the pertinent Cluster Platform documents in the HP Cluster Platform 3000 HP Cluster Platform 4000 or HP Cluster Platform 6000 Documentation CD ROMs part numbers AD162A AD163A and AD164A Cluster Platform Administrative Network The Cluster Platform Administrative Network is based on HP ProCurve 2848 and 2824 Gigabit Ethernet switches Each Cluster Platform system has a single Utility Building Block UBB which includes a Cluster Plattorm Administrative Network root switch In addition each Cluster Platform may have several Compute Building Blocks CBBs each of which includes a Cluster Platform Adminis
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16. 7 software HP XC 64 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW support SUPPORT Unlimited 128 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software HP XC 128 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW support SUPPORT Unlimited 256 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software HP XC 256 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW support SUPPORT DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 20 QuickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Ordering Information BA525A 076 BA525A 077 BA525A 078 BA525A 079 Current Part Number BA525A 110 BA525A 210 BA525A 310 BA525A 100 BA525A 200 BA525A 300 BA525A 0BE BA525A 0BF BA525A 010 BA525A 030 BA525A 050 BA525A 070 BA525A 012 BA525A 032 BA525A 052 BA525A 072 BA525A 014 BA525A 034 BA525A 054 BA525A 074 CA invent Unlimited 512 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software support Unlimited 1024 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software support Unlimited 2048 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software support Unlimited 4096 processor use license and 3 years 24x7 software support HP XC 512 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT 1024 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT HP XC HP XC 2048 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT HP XC 4096 PROC LTU 3 YR 24x7 SW SUPPOR REPLACEMENT PARTS TO BE ACTIVATED IN AUGUST 2005 Short Product Name New Part Number orderable with VISTA or FUSION BA573A BA574A BA575A BA571A BA572A BA573A BA576A
17. ORMATION section of these QuickSpecs For more information about installing the XC System Software license keys refer to the XC System Software Installation Guide Software and Services Warranty The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services For example HP warrants only that the Software media will be free of physical defects for a period of ninety 90 days from delivery Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein CA invent DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 18 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Ordering Information The following information is valid at time of release Please contact your local Hewlett Packard office for the most up to date information Combined Software License and Support Parts On an XC System all of the processors must be licensed Every XC System must also include a base license for the appropriate processor architecture The licenses can be combined For example a system with 17 Integrity nodes each 2 processors could be licensed by combining two 16 processor licenses with one 2 processor license and one Itanium base license Alternatively if you plan to upgrade your system later you could order a single 64 processor license plus an Itanium base license which wou
18. PACK SuperLU_DIST Fast Fourier Transforms FFTs and convolutions Many of these capabilities are included in math libraries from Intel MKL AMD ACML and other software vendors These libraries are widely used today and therefore to encourage increasing levels of portability and standardization the use of HP MLIB is being deprecated in favor of the more popular mathematical libraries Linux XC System Software includes XC Linux for High Performance Computing HPC Linux an LSB compliant Gnu Linux distribution kernel and supporting software packages based on Linux Kernel Version 2 4 Linux is the open source operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in the early 1 official releases of the Linux kernel can 990s and subsequently adopted and maintained by thousands of people world wide All be found at the kernel org web site http www kernel org Hewlett Packard will periodically update the XC System Software with new versions of the Linux kernel or with patches to the Linux kernel see the section on Software Product Services Any changes made HP software support contracts for XC System Software The system utilities and services come o the kernel other than those provided or authorized by Hewlett Packard will invalidate all rom the Gnu project and from a variety of other open source projects The base collection of Gnu Linux utilities provided with the XC System Software is derived from the Red Hat Enterpris
19. QsNet Elan 4 XC Systems with 32 nodes or less and which have an XC System Interconnect consisting of Gigabit Ethernet may be configured to combine the XC System Interconnect and the Cluster Platform Administrative Network into a single network with a single Gigabit Ethernet switch All nodes of the XC System are directly attached to XC System Interconnect using one adapter per node For the Quadrics based systems the adaptor is a Quadrics QM500 PCI X Network Adapter For the Myrinet based systems each XC System supports one of two possible adapters the Myricom Myrinet 2000 PCI module Rev D or Rev E For the Gigabit Ethernet based systems network connections either use onboard 1000Base T NICs that come with certain of the servers or separate adapters that are available as options to the servers For Infiniband the adapter is a dual port 4x HCA PCI X adapter Nodes Cluster Platform 3000 The Cluster Platform 3000 consists of Proliant DL140 G2 and or Proliant DL860 G4 and or ProLiant DL380 G4 servers One of the servers often a ProLiant DL380 server is designated as the head node This node must have an internal disk drive two processors must have a DVD drive and must be attached to the Cluster Platform 3000 s rack mounted keyboard monitor The choice of a different head node is generally related to whether more PCI slots are required for extra connectivity to external systems Nodes Cluster Platform 4000 The Cluster Platform 4000 consis
20. Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Overview XC System Software Version 2 1 is an HP supported software stack which can be used for the operation and management of an HP Cluster Platform Hereafter in this document the term XC System Software will refer to XC System Software V2 1 and the combination of HP Cluster Platform with XC System Software will be called an XC System The XC System is based on HP Integrity or HP ProLiant nodes connected by a high speed interconnect XC System Interconnect such as the Quadrics QsNetll switch network from Quadrics Ltd the Myrinet 2000 switch network from Myricom an Infiniband switch network or a Gigabit Ethernet switch network In addition to the XC System Interconnect each XC System also includes an administrative network XC Administrative Network based on Gigabit and 10 100 Mbit Ethernet switches with separate console and optionally administrative connections to each node The XC System Software includes HP MPI HP MLIB and other HP proprietary and open source software that supplies the infrastructure for optimal interconnect performance In addition XC System Software includes a Linux distribution compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 0 and software that provides users and system administrators with single system attributes for managing and using XC system resources Also XC System Software includes technology from Platform Computing Inc Platform for job management and opti
21. Version 5 June 20 2005 perl libwww perl 5 65 6 perl libxml enno 1 02 29 perl libxml perl 0 07 28 perl Parse Yapp 1 05 30 perl URI 1 21 7 perl XML Dumper 0 4 25 perl XML Encoding 1 01 23 perl XML Grove 0 46alpha 25 perl XML Parser 2 31 15 perl XML Simple 1 08 1 perl XML Twig 3 09 3 php 4 3 2 19 ent php imap 4 3 2 19 ent php Idap 4 3 2 19 ent pilot link 0 11 7 1 1 pinto 0 6 6 4 pkgcontig 0 14 0 5 pnm2ppa 1 04 7 popt 1 8 2 13 popt 1 8 2 13 portmap 4 0 56 ppp 2 4 1 14 1 prelink 0 3 2 2 EL printman 0 0 1 0 20021202 13 procmail 3 22 9 procps 2 0 17 13 psacct 6 3 2 28 rhel3 psmisc 21 3 1 RHEL O pspell 0 12 2 16 1 pspell devel 0 12 2 16 1 psutils 1 1 7 21 pwlib 1 4 7 7 EL pygtk2 1 99 16 8 pygtk2 libglade 1 99 16 8 pyorbit 1 99 3 5 python 2 2 3 6 python devel 2 2 3 6 pyxt86contig 0 3 5 1 PyXML 0 7 1 9 qsnet2diags 1 0 12 3 1hptc qsnet2diagscommon 1 0 12 2 1hptc qsnet2libs 1 8 13 0 hptc qsnetdiags 1 0 2 14 1hptc ee 4 30 1 1hptc qsqsql 1 0 12 2 dhe gsswm 2 3 7 0 1hptc qt 3 1 2 13 4 quota 3 10 4 raidtools 1 00 3 7 rcs 5 7 20 rdate 1 3 2 rdist 6 1 5 35 30 1 readline 4 3 5 2 readline 4 3 5 2 Page 9 QuickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features cyrus sasl 2 1 15 10 cyrus sasl 2 1 15 10 cyrus sasl devel 2 1 15 10 cyrus sasl gssapi 2 1 15 cyrus sasl md5 2 1 15 1 cyrus sasl plain 2 1 15 1 db4 4 1 25 8 db4 4 1 25 8 db4 devel 4 1 25 8 db4 utils 4 1 25 8 ddd 3 3 1 23 dejagnu 1 4 2 10
22. XC System Software since parallelism typically causes complex interdependencies between separate software components layered on top of the Linux distribution The tested software packages unless explicitly stated tested on all the XC supported hardware platforms include Quadrics SHMEM as part of QsNet user libraries on Itanium systems connected with the Quadrics QsNet switch Etnus TotalView debugger Version 6 4 Intel MKL V6 0 lt interaction with HP MPI gt Scientific Computing Associates TCP Linda 7 1 Intel Visual Analyzer Tracer formally Pallas Vampir and Vampirtrace performance analyzer on Itanium Gnu make including distributed parallel make MPICH 1 2 6 generally bypasses SLURM lt pointer to information gt PBSPro generally bypasses SLURM lt pointer to information gt Software Licensing Information Use of XC System Software is subject to an HP base license an HP quantity specitied license and the license terms in files in the physical media Using the software indicates acceptance of all of these license terms XC System Software contains portions of third party software some of which is proprietary to that third party and some of which is open source software including but not limited to Linux kernel and packages Quadrics libraries Myricom libraries and MPI libraries the Bundled Products License and warranty terms associated with the Bundled Products appear in files with the Bundled Products which are distri
23. Xeon processors with Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology The supported Cluster Platform 4000 systems are based on HP ProLiant DL145 G1 DL145 G2 DL385 G1 and DL585 G1 servers each of which use AMD Opteron processors The supported Cluster Platform 6000 systems are based on HP Integrity 1620 rx2600 and 2620 systems with Intel Itanium processors Each node must be connected to the others with a valid instance of an XC System Interconnect a Cluster Platform Administrative Network and a Cluster Platform Console Network XC Systems with 32 nodes or less and which have an XC System Interconnect consisting of Gigabit Ethernet may be configured to combine the XC System Interconnect and the Cluster Platform Administrative Network into a single network with a single Gigabit Ethernet switch The supported XC System Interconnects for both Cluster Platform 3000 and Cluster Platform 4000 systems are Gigabit Ethernet Infiniband and Myricom Myrinet 2000 In addition the Cluster Platform 4000 also supports as the XC System Interconnect Quadrics QsNet The supported XC System Interconnects for Cluster Platform 6000 systems are Gigabit Ethernet Infiniband and QsNet Il XC System Software is also supported on certain custom designed Integrity clusters with QsNet QsNet Elan3 Valid hardware configurations and options must comply with the XC System specification provided in the HP Cluster Platform 3000 HP Cluster Platform 4000 or HP Cluster Platform 60
24. accomplished with Systemlmager The nodes are each booted over the network DHCP boot with an autoinstall kernel which sets up local file systems The Base Image is then distributed to all the nodes In the final phase of configuration node specific configuration information is imparted to each node based in part on data in the CMDB Each node ultimately boots and runs its copy of the operating system using system files on a local disk Once the system has been configured CA invent DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 3 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features global updates can be efficiently performed through XC System Software utilities which modify the Base Image and which then distribute the changed files to all of the nodes or to selected nodes Node specific updates are done through utilities that modify the CMDB and then accessing this data the next time the affected nodes are rebooted Single System Access The Linux Virtual Server LVS is used to present a single host name to users so that they see the XC System as a single system for login access to prepare and launch high performance applications LVS directs each user login session to one of several potential login nodes LVS can be used on nodes which have external network connections in additions to the connections that are mandatory for the XC The XC System architecture does not restrict the number or types of nodes that have such e
25. and so on Nagios is used to report information collected via the infrastructure of SuperMon The data collected by SuperMon includes both system performance metrics like CPU and memory utilization as well as environmental data such as fan speed and temperature This data is collected on a regular basis via a call to the SuperMon daemon on the head node which communicates with daemons on the other nodes The Nagios plug in requests the data causes it to be entered in the CMDB and then displays the result The following is a partial list of node health and processor health metrics context switches per second interrupts per second O in out of kernel per second 1 minute 5 minute and 15 minute processor load averages free or shared memory memory used as buffers or cache processor usage idle nice system user number of processes condition of realtime clock battery swap free space fan speed if available temperature if available processor clock speed In addition to the real time collection of events the XC Software also provides a scalable logging facility syslog ng Syslog ng can coexist or totally replace the traditional syslog functionality It provides more flexibility to handle logs adds better filters and contains a better forwarding mechanism In order to control the size of global system logs events can be prioritized so that only the highest priority events are forwarded to a centralized log file maintained on the head nodes
26. are V2 1 Ordering Information BA525A 032 BA525A 033 BA525A 034 BA525A 035 BA525A 036 BA525A 037 BA525A 038 BA525A 039 Part Number BA525A 050 BA525A 051 BA525A 052 BA525A 053 BA525A 054 BA525A 055 BA525A 056 BA525A 057 BA525A 058 BA525A 059 Part Number BA525A 070 BA525A 071 BA525A 072 BA525A 073 BA525A 074 BA525A 075 CA invent Unlimited 16 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software support HP XC 16 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT Unlimited 64 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software support HP XC 64 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT Unlimited 128 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software HP XC 128 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW suppor SUPPORT Unlimited 256 processor use license and year 2447 software HP XC 256 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW suppor SUPPORT Unlimited 512 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software HP XC 512 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW suppor SUPPORT Unlimited 1024 processor use license and year 2447 software HP XC 1024 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW suppor SUPPORT Unlimited 2048 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software HP XC 2048 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW suppor SUPPORT Unlimited 4096 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software HP XC 4096 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW suppor SUPPORT LICENSES BUNDLED WITH 3 YEARS 9 X 5 SUPPORT AND UPDATES Description Short Product
27. ased on data collected by scalable software that collects usage and health information hardware parameters from the individual nodes The XC software is delivered with pre configured rules to monitor all critical systems and to report the information through one centralized interface The monitoring technology for data collection is SuperMon and the user interface technology is Nagios Nagios events can be monitored with a browser as well as a command line interface XC System Software also provides a scalable event logging utility syslog ng This utility aggregates cluster events of interest to a single location In addition to monitoring and logging global information it is occasionally necessary for the administrator to pertorm actions on every node or on some subset of nodes of the system This capability is supplied by the global parallel shell utility pdsh CA yika DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 2 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features Technology Components XC System Software integrates technology that has been widely tested and used by high performance computing sites The key technology components of XC System Software are based on Open Source Technology Components see the table and the later section on Linux LSF Version 6 1 and LSF HPC Version 6 HP MPI Version 2 1 1 HP MLIB Version 1 5 Console Management Facility from HP AlphaServer System Software V2 6 The follow
28. buted for example in a CD kit The HP Software License Terms apply to that binary only portion of the XC System Software that is proprietary to HP or to a third party and does not apply to or override expressly or by implication the terms associated with the Bundled Products The HP Software License Terms include a license grant in which HP grants you a nonexclusive non transferable license to Use one copy of the XC System Software on the Quantity Of Processors contained in a Conformant System A Conformant System is an HP computer or a connected collection of HP computers that conform to the hardware configuration specifications provided in the Software associated documentation The quantity of processors for which the license applies Quantity Of Processors is the total of the number of processors specitied as part of the HP quantity specitied license Use means storing loading installing executing or displaying the Software Other terms of the HP Software License are provided on the license agreement that is delivered with the XC System Software For more information about the Hewlett Packard Company licensing terms and policies contact your local Hewlett Packard office License Management Facility Support XC System Software supports the FlexLM License Management Facility The FlexLM license key is provided upon presentation of a valid license key request form This form is delivered with the software license see the ORDERING INF
29. clients 3 6 1 p2 33 30 3 openssh server 3 6 1 p2 33 30 3 openssl 0 9 7a 33 12 openssl 0 9 7a 33 12 openssl096b 0 9 6b 16 openssl devel 0 9 7a 33 12 oprofile 0 5 4 22 oprofile devel 0 5 4 22 ORBit 0 5 17 10 4 ORBit2 2 6 2 1 pam_krb5 1 73 pam_krb5 1 73 pam asie pam_slurm 1 2 pam_smb 1 1 7 pam_smb 1 1 7 openjade 1 3 1 12 1 1 0 7 5 1 1 1 2hptc 1 1 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 XFree86 Mesa libGLU 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 Mesa libGLU 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 tools 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 truetype tonts 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 twm 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 xauth 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 xdm 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 xfs 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 Xnest 4 3 0 78 EL XFree86 Xvfb 4 3 0 78 EL xinetd 2 3 12 6 3E xinitrc 3 32 1 LNXHPC xloadimage 4 1 27 xml common 0 6 3 14 xpdf 2 02 9 5 xscreensaver 4 0 8 LNXHPC xsri 2 1 0 5 LNXHPC xterm 179 5 EL yelp 2 2 3 1 E ypbind 1 12 5 21 1 ypserv 2 8 6 1hp yp tools 2 8 6 zip 2 3 16 zlib 1 1 4 8 1 zlib 1 1 4 8 1 ial zlib devel 1 1 4 8 1 Page 13 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Configuration Information Hardware Requirements Overview of Processors and Systems Supported XC System Software must be run on each node of a valid configuration such as an HP Cluster Platform 3000 an HP Cluster Platform 4000 or an HP Cluster Platform 6000 The supported Cluster Platform 3000 systems are based on HP ProLiant DL140 G2 DL360 G4 and DL 380 G4 servers each of which use Intel
30. d 2 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 2 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 012 Unlimited 16 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 16 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 013 Unlimited 64 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 64 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 014 Unlimited 128 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 128 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 015 Unlimited 256 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 256 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 016 Unlimited 512 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 512 PROC LTU YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 017 Unlimited 1024 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 1024 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 018 Unlimited 2048 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 2048 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 019 Unlimited 4096 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 4096 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT LICENSES BUNDLED WITH 1 YEAR 24 X 7 SUPPORT AND UPDATES Part Number Description Short Product Name BA525A 030 Unlimited 1 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software support HP XC 1 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT BA525A 031 Unlimited 2 processor use license and 1 year 24x7 software support HP XC 2 PROC LTU 1 YR 24x7 SW SUPPORT CA TE DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 19 QuickSpecs HP XC System Softw
31. e Linux Advanced Server 3 0 packages of Red Hat Inc The set of packages included with the XC System Software is neither supported nor endorsed by Red Hat However these packages are covered by HP sot ware support contracts for XC System Software provided that no changes are made to those packages except as provided or explicitly authorized by Hewlett Packard Any applications that run correctly using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server Version 3 0 will also run correctly using HPC Linux The following supported packages RPMs are included in the XC System Software ASuite 0 11 1 14 a2ps 4 13b 28 acl 2 2 3 1 acpid 1 0 2 2 alchemist 1 0 27 1 ant 1 5 2 23 ant libs 1 5 2 23 arts 1 1 3 2 3 ash 0 3 8 16 aspell 0 33 7 1 25 3 aspell contig 0 33 7 1 25 3 aspell devel 0 33 7 1 25 3 at 3 1 8 60 EL3 atk 1 2 4 3 0 at spi 1 1 9 1 attr 2 2 0 audiofile 0 2 3 7 1 authcontig 4 3 7 1 authcontig gtk 4 3 7 authd 1 4 1 1 rhel3 autoconf 2 57 3 autoconf213 2 13 6 autofs 4 1 3 47 utomake 1 6 3 5 O invent Linux Supported Packages hptc pdsh support 1 0 hptc power 2 2 2 hptc qsnet2 diag 1 5 hptc slurm 0 21 1hp hptc supermon 1 4 8 hptc supermon contig 1 5 hptc supermon modules 1 4 k2 4 21_27 5hp XCsmp hptc syslogng 1 3 hptc sysman 1 1 11 hptc sysmandb 1 16 htmlview 2 0 0 10 httpd 2 0 46 44 LNXHPC hwbrowser 0 11 1 hwdata 0 101 14 1 ibhost biz 3 0 16 5 2 2hptc r _27 5hp XCsmp imlib 1 13 3 Wan 18 6 ind
32. e to use either the XC Administrative Network or the XC System Interconnect for NFS operations The XC System Interconnect can potentially offer higher performance but only at the potential expense of the performance of application communications For high performance and or high availability file IYO the Lustre file system should be used The Lustre file system uses POSIX compliant syntax and semantics The XC System Software includes kernel modifications required for Lustre client services which enable the operation of the separately installable Lustre client software The industry leading external Lustre file server product is the HP StorageWorks SFS which fully supports the XC System The HP Scalable File Share SFS V2 0 0 includes XC Lustre client software The SFS can be integrated with the XC System so that Lustre O is performed over the same high speed interconnect fabric used by the XC system So for example if the XC System Interconnect is based on a Quadrics QsNet switch then the SFS will serve tiles over ports on that switch The file operations are able to proceed at the full bandwidth of the XC System Interconnect since these operations are implemented directly over the low level communications libraries Further optimizations of file YO can be achieved at the application level using special file system commands implemented as iocts which allow a program to interrogate the attributes of the file system modity the stripe size and
33. ecs and media is restricted to this product only Additional copies of the programs may be made for security and back up purposes only Resale of the programs in their present form or with alterations is expressly prohibited AV RWJEC TE June 2005 O TEREE DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 24
34. ent 2 2 9 2 indexhtml 3 2 LNXHPC info 4 5 3 initscripts 7 31 18 EL 1 LNXHPC intltool 0 26 1 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 pam 0 75 62 pam 0 75 62 pam devel 0 75 62 pango 1 2 5 5 parted 1 6 3 29 3 passwd 0 68 3 patch 2 5 4 16 patchutils 0 2 23 1 pax 3 0 6 pciutils 2 1 10 7 pciutils devel 2 1 10 7 pcre 3 9 10 1 pdksh 5 2 14 21 pdsh 1 7 6 perl 5 8 0 88 9 perl AppConfig 1 52 4 perl CGI 2 81 88 9 perl CPAN 1 61 88 9 perl DateManip 5 42a 0 rhel3 perl DBD MySQL 2 1021 3 perl DBI 1 32 9 perl Filter 1 29 3 perl HTML Parser 3 26 17 perl HTML Tagset 3 03 28 Page 8 QuickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features automakel 4 1 4p6 6 automake 5 1 5 7 basesystem 8 0 2 bash 2 05b 29 0 3 bc 1 06 15 bcel 5 0 10 beecrypt 3 0 1 0 20030630 bind 9 2 4 5 EL3 bind libs 9 2 4 5 EL3 bind utils 9 2 4 5 EL3 binutils 2 14 90 0 4 35 bison 1 875c 2 EL bitmap fonts 0 3 2 bonobo activation 2 2 2 1 byacc 1 9 25 bzip2 1 0 2 11 bzip2 devel 1 0 2 11 bzip2 libs 1 0 2 11 cdecl 2 5 27 cdparanoia libs alpha9 8 15 cdrecord 2 01 0 a32 0 EL3 1 chkcontig 1 3 11 0 3 chktontpath 1 9 10 1 RHEL commons beanutils 1 6 1 10 commons collections 2 1 9 commons digester 1 4 1 commons logging 1 0 2 1 commons modeler 1 0 5 compat db 4 0 14 5 1 compat db 4 0 14 5 1 compat gcc 7 3 2 96 128 compat gcc c 7 3 2 96 128 compat libstde 7 3 2 96 128 compat libstde devel 7 3 2 96 128 comps extras 9 0 4 1 control
35. figuration and software options Memory Requirements At least 1 GB of memory per processor is required on each node of the XC System O TER DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 16 QuickSpecs Software HP XC System Software V2 1 Software Requirements XC System Software is self contained and does not generally require the installation of any other software though most sites will want to augment it with additional compilers and tools see the following One exception is HP Mathematical Libraries MLIB which depends on specific compiler runtime libraries For XC6000 Itanium MLIB is built with Intel V7 1 and V8 0 Fortran and C compilers For XC4000 Opteron MLIB is built with PGI V5 1 Fortran and C compliers Note when linking with the PGI C compiler the PGI Fortran runtime libraries may be required For XC3000 Intel Xeon MLIB is built with EM64T Intel Fortran and C compilers MLIB for XC4000 Opteron can be utilized on XC3000 Intel Xeon hardware if the PGI compilers are installed MLIB for XC3000 Intel Xeon can be utilized on XC4000 Opteron hardware if the Intel EM64T compilers are installed On all XC architectures it is recommended to link MLIB with the respective Fortran or C compilers instead of using the linker Id directly Cluster Platform 6000 systems Integrity servers Intel Itanium compilers cc_pe_7 1 1 038 tar support package ID _cc_pc_7 1 038 intel isubh7 7 1 42 1a64 r
36. he job s requirements SLURM supports node features predefined by the system administrator that can be specifically requested by user jobs during submission These features are useful for identifying compute nodes with special characteristics such as more memory faster CPUs additional local disk space or any additional hardware installed on those nodes These SLURM features are also supported with XC System Software by LSF SLURM also creates the requisite processes on each node Non LSF partitions would typically be set up for different types of jobs such as development work or to set aside nodes with different types of characteristics for special purpose use Jobs cannot span across nodes assigned to different partitions The XC software provides the ability to prevent users from logging into nodes that they have not previously allocated through SLURM This ensures exclusive access to nodes for parallel applications that could otherwise be affected by any additional undesired activity from other users Scalable application resource management is implemented through the combination of a control daemon slurmctld responsible for the entire XC System and a collection of client daemons slurmd running on each of the XC nodes The SLURM control daemon manages the queue of pending jobs provides node state information and allocates nodes The client daemons are responsible for providing node status job status implementing remote execution
37. ing table lists the key open source components that have been integrated together to provide the clustering and parallel computing features of the XC System Software The table shows the version number and source URL used for integration in the XC System Software In addition to these components is the Linux distribution itself including the packages RPMs listed later All of this technology is covered by HP software support contracts for XC System Software provided that the only changes made to the software are those authorized by Hewlett Packard Key Open Source Technology Components Name Version URL MySQL 4 0 http www mysql com Systemlmager 3 2 3 http www systemimager org Linux Virtual Server 1 21 9 http www linuxvirtualserver org SLURM 0 3 8 http www In gov linux slurm Nagios 1 2 http www nagios org Nagios Plugins 1 3 1 http www nagios org Nrpe 2 0 http www nagios org Nsca 2 4 http www nagios org SuperMon 1 4 6 http supermon sourceforge net Syslog_ng 1 6 2 1 http www balabit com products syslog_ng Parallel Distributed Shell 1 7 6 http www IIn gov linux pdsh pdsh html Modules 3 1 6 http modules sourcetorge net Installation and Configuration XC System Software is delivered on a single DVD which includes a default kickstart file to enable the installation to proceed automatically with Red Hat style installation The DVD is placed in the node that will be
38. ld then leave some room for later system expansion without requiring additional software licenses Licenses are combined with software support The licenses provide permanent rights to use a specitic version of the software Standard software support includes 9x5 telephone suppor media kits for new distributions and rights to new versions for the specitied period of time one year or three years 24x7 software support extends the telephone support window to round the clock access See the section below on Software Product Services All of the part numbers shown below can be ordered through HP s FUSION ordering system Part numbers with asterisks will be phased out in August 2005 and replaced with new parts shown in the table below These new parts will be orderable through HP s VISTA ordering system as well as through HP s FUSION ordering system BASE LICENSE KITS Part Number Description Short Product Name BA525A 110 Unlimited Opteron base license media and hardcopy docs HP XC for OPTERON MEDIA MANUAL LTU BA525A 210 Unlimited Itanium base license media and hardcopy docs HP XC for ITANIUM MEDIA MANUAL LTU BA525A 310 Unlimited Xeon base license media and hardcopy docs HP XC for XEON MEDIA MANUAL LTU LICENSES BUNDLED WITH 1 YEAR 9 X 5 SUPPORT AND UPDATES Part Number Description Short Product Name BA525A 010 Unlimited 1 processor use license and 1 year software support HP XC 1 PROC LTU 1 YR SW SUPPORT BA525A 011 Unlimite
39. mized throughput of parallel applications Product Overview XC System Software creates a performance optimized application environment that is manageable across a range of system scales XC System Software is based on a standard Linux distribution combined with a number of open systems packages that leverages the work of the overall open systems community This open systems base combined with technology from Hewlett Packard and its partners achieves a powertul and complete solution for development execution and management of simultaneous parallel and serial applications Precontigured systems support up to 512 nodes larger systems may require custom configuration The XC System Software is an integration of premier components from leading suppliers of cluster technologies In selecting these components several key criteria have been employed e Capability the components are capable of providing in total the features required for a complete high performance cluster solution Provability the components have been widely used and proven in production facilities Integrability the components are capable of being integrated into a single management and deployment environment with uniform semantics and without multiple conflicting methods for job management or execution e Portability the components can be combined to produce a whole system that can assure application portability across the platform family and can adopt to future technologies
40. oditied by the customer Although the software includes licenses permitting modification of certain parts of the software such modifications unless they are provided by HP under a support agreement or provided by HP as a licensed product will result in a variation of the software that may no longer be called XC System Software and that therefore is not the subject of any standard service agreement for XC System Software Standard software support includes customer access to technical resources during standard hours see later problem analysis escalation management and resolution HP also provides unlimited access to an electronic facility that includes a knowledge database with known symptoms and solutions software product descriptions specifications and technical literature In addition HP will also make available certain software patches including security patches to the XC System Software During the term of a standard software support contract a customer is entitled to receive new versions of the software With standard software support customers can access technical resources via telephone electronic communications or FAX where available during standard business hours on standard business days including the hours of 8 00 am and 5 00 pm Monday through Friday excluding HP holidays 24x7 software support extends the access window to 24 hours a day from Monday through Sunday including holidays Business terms and conditions governing sof
41. odutils devel 2 4 25 14 EL mount 2 1 ly 31 2 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 samba swat 3 0 9 1 3E 2 schedutils 1 3 0 5 scrollkeeper 0 3 11 8E SDL 1 2 5 6 sed 4 0 7 3 sendmail 8 setarch 1 3 1 setserial 2 17 12 setup 2 5 27 1 LNXHPC setuptool 1 13 1 sgml common 0 6 3 14 shadow utils 4 0 3 22 02 sharutils 4 2 1 16 slang 1 4 5 18 slang devel 1 4 5 18 slocate 2 7 3 slurm 0 3 8 1 36hp slurm auth munge 0 3 8 1 36hp slurm auth none 0 3 8 1 36hp slurm devel 0 3 8 1 36hp slurm sched wiki 0 3 8 1 36hp slurm switch elan 0 3 8 1 36hp sox 12 17 4 4 3 specspo 3EL splint 3 0 1 7 0 20030123 squid 2 5 STABLE3 6 3E 2 star 1 5a08 4 startup notitication 0 5 1 strace 4 5 6 1 EL stunnel 4 04 4 sudo 1 6 7p5 1 swig 1 1 p5 22 switchdesk 3 9 8 17 switchdesk gnome 3 9 8 17 symlinks 1 2 18 sys_check 1 0 2 7 sysklogd 1 4 1 12 3 syslinux 2 06 0 3E syslog ng 1 6 2 1 sysreport 1 3 7 2 2 systemconfigurator 2 0 9 hp6 systemimager client 3 2 3 8hp systemimager common 3 2 3 8hp systemimager flamethrower 3 2 3 8hp systemimager server 3 2 3 8hp systemimager x86_64boot standard 3 2 3 8hp SysVinit 2 85 4 2 talk 0 17 20 tar 1 13 25 13 tcl 8 3 5 92 2 tcl 8 3 5 92 2 tclx 8 3 92 2 tcp_wrappers 7 6 34 2 11 4 RHEL3 Page 11 QuickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features glib 1 2 10 11 1 glib2 2 2 3 2 0 glibc 2 3 2 95 30 glibc 2 3 2 95 30 glibc common 2 3 2 95 30 glibc de
42. ormal customer training 4 days on site formal customer training Page 23 QuickSpecs Ordering Information HP XC System Software V2 1 2005 Hewlett Packard Development Company L P The information contained herein is subject to change without notice The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein Quadrics and QsNet are trademarks or registered trademark of Quadrics Ltd InfiniBand is a trademark the InfiniBand Trade Association Myrinet and Myricom are registered trademarks of Myricom Inc Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries and are used under license Pentium is a U S registered trademark of Intel Corporation Restricted Rights Legend Use duplication or disclosure by the U S Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph c 1 ii of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS 252 227 7013 tor DOD agencies and subparagraphs c 1 and c 2 of the Commercial Computer Software Restricted Rights clause at FAR 52 227 19 for other agencies HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto California 94304 U S A Use of this QuickSp
43. other attributes of new zero length files and so on Some of these optimizations are implicit in the HP MPI I O library which implements the MPI 2 file I O standard CA saa DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 4 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features Workload and Resource Management XC System Software provides both direct job allocation and policy scheduled interactive and batch queue management based on Plattorm s software product LSF HPC Version 6 1 Alternatively an XC System can be configured to bypass the use of SLURM and to use standard LSF Version 6 1 Further information regarding this alternative can be found at hitp docs hp com en linux html When using standard LSF all features of that product see for example www platform com are fully supported on the XC System The remainder of this section will describe the combined use of SLURM and LSF HPC Version 6 1 LSF The expected usage of the XC System is through scheduled rather than direct access LSF provides a rich set of scheduling policies for scheduling and prioritizing jobs based on combinations of static and dynamic system attributes such as the number of processors job attributes such as time limits and user attributes including uid gid account id project id and priority based quotas for size and time allocation LSF policies include first come tirst served fairshare hierarchical fairshare deadline constrained exclu
44. ow latency and high bandwidth point to point and collective communication routines HP MPI supports 32 and 64 bit applications single and multi threaded and provides tools to debug and instrument MPI execution Also offered is MPICH 1 2 5 compatibility when an application is built shared with HP MPI Included in HP MPI is support for Quadrics Ltd QsNet and Gigabit Ethernet on Integrity systems and Myrinet GM2 1 and Gigabit Ethernet on HP ProLiant including standard TCP IP support Applications built with HP MPI are interconnect independent it is not necessary to recompile or relink an application in order for it to operate on a different XC System Interconnect CA T DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 7 QuickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features MLIB XC System Software includes HP MLIB V1 5 HP MLIB for compatibility with previous versions of the XC System Software but HP MLIB will be removed from subsequent releases of the XC System Software HP MLIB is one of several mathematical libraries for Linux systems which support application developers looking for ways to speed up development of new applications and to shorten the execution time of long running technical applications HP MLIB contains robust callable subprograms including all BLAS 1 2 and 3 subroutines sparse BLAS subroutines and a collection of commonly used dense and sparse linear system solvers including LAPACK ScaLA
45. pom intel ecc7 7 1 42 ia64 rpom intel eidb7 7 2 2 83 ia64 rpm fc_pc_7 1 1 040 tar support package ID fc_pc_7 1 040 intel ifc7 7 1 41 ia64 rom intel eidb7 7 2 2 81 ia64 rpm cc_pc_8 1 0 066 tar gz support package ID _cc_pc_8 0 066 intel isubh8 8 0 57 ia64 rpm intel icc8 8 0 57 ia64 rpm intel eidb7 7 32 114 ia64 rpm cc_pc_8 1 0 066 pl068 1 tar gz support package ID cc_pc_8 0 066 pl068 1 Intel Fortran compilers for Cluster Platform 6000 systems Integrity servers with Itanium 2 CPUs fc_pc_8 1 0 046 tar gz support package ID fc_pc_8 0 046 intel ifort8 8 0 57 ia64 rom intel eidb7 7 3 2 113 ia64 rpm fc_pc_8 1 0 046 pl048 1 tar gz support package ID fc pc 8 0 046 pl048 1 Cluster Platform 4000 and 3000 systems ProLiant servers with Opteron or EM64T CPUs Intel EM64T compilers Package ID fce pc 8 1 023 Package ID cce pc 8 1 023 Portland Group compilers Version 5 CA T DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 17 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Software Optional Software For access to the HP SFS Lustre file system it is necessary to install client software that is included with HP SFS V2 0 0 Since XC System Software is compatible with a standard Linux distribution third party software will work correctly with XC System Software if it works correctly with that Linux distribution Some parallel distributed software packages have been explicitly tested with the
46. ponents which facilitate the serviceability of the XC System and the XC System Software For detection of potential problems relating to the XC System Interconnect there are interconnect specific diagnostic tools as well as generic tests which stress the network An XC Installation and Operational Verification procedure can be used to check whether system installation has been done correctly and whether the system behaves correctly During normal operation of the XC System various facilities are provided to help detect and diagnose problems Crash dump support is provided as a way to trace the origins of software errors which in some cases could be triggered by hardware failures The sys_check utility is able to collect data and log files to further facilitate problem analysis Hardware failures can be anticipated or detected by environmental monitoring using Nagios and Supermon as described elsewhere in this document Availability For increased redundancy and availability the XC System may be configured with the administration and login services available on wo ditferent nodes administration nodes The XC System may also include separate I O nodes with shared access to SAN storage Should a node fail running one of these services administration login or I O the service can be manually resumed on its alternate administration node In addition there are some key redundancy features at the application level that help to limit single points of ailu
47. rdered separately see the SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION section of these QuickSpecs for more information Patch kits may be required and can be downloaded from the website http www itrc hp com Software Documentation Documentation is included in the same Media kits as the software The HP System Software Documentation CD ROM includes LSF HP MPI and HP MLIB documentation in addition to all of the material available separately in hardcopy format Hardcopy documentation kits are available as listed below with their component manuals Each hardcopy documentation kit includes the HP System Software Documentation CD ROM XC System Software Administration Documentation Kit BAS25A 0BF HP XC System Software Installation Guide HP XC System Software Administration Guide HP XC System Software Hardware Preparation Guide Linux Administration Handbook HP XC System Software Documentation CD ROM XC System Software User Documentation Kit BA525A 0BE e HP XC System Software User s Guide e HP XC System Software Documentation CD ROM Hardcopy documentation is also available for HP MPI and HP MLIB HP MPI User s Guide 9th Edition B6060 96018 HP MPI Release Notes Version 2 1 1 T1919 90008 HP MLIB User s Guide 6th Edition B6061 96023 HP MLIB Release Notes Version 1 5 T1918 96025 Software Product Services For the purposes of Hewlett Packard Software Product Services the product is regarded as XC System Software only if it has not been m
48. re e Interactive remote execution LSF Base commands and load sharing shell e The following LSF job limits are not supported swap process and thread Distinct runtime resource utilization such as cpu time and I O time although users can launch their own resource monitoring programs if necessary e Per node load indice support given the CPU based scheduling on XC CPUs are expected to be either fully loaded with a user s application or idle waiting for a job e LSF Analyzer Administration The XC System Software administrative tools provide mechanisms for configuring see above monitoring controlling and managing a node or groups of nodes Nodes are monitored using Nagios Nagios is a system and network monitoring application watching hosts and services specified by the administrator and providing alerts when problems emerge or when problems subside Some key features of Nagios include Monitoring of network services such as SMTP Monitoring of host resources such as processor load Simple plugin design that allows administrators to easily develop their own service checks Parallelized service checks Contact notifications when service or host problems occurs and get resolved Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts Optional web interface for viewing current network status notification and problem history log file
49. re The SLURM and LSF job launch mechanisms as well as scheduling and resource management provide application level ailover support between the two administration nodes For example the SLURM control daemon can be optionally configured with a backup to allow failover in the event of a node failure If the administration node running the SLURM and LSF services fails this ailure will be detected The services will then resume on the alternate administration node e g an LSF daemon will be started on hat node with no disruption to users or to pending jobs Running jobs will be restarted Modules The XC System Software includes the Modules package not to be confused with kernel modules which provides for the dynamic modification of a user s environment via module files The module command processes the information contained in the module file to alter or set the shell environment variables such as PATH and MANPATH Users can add their own module files to further modify their environment The module files that are automatically installed and that are specific to XC System Software include Intel compilers mpi and modules MPI XC System Software includes HP MPI V2 1 1 HP MPI and is fully integrated with SLURM resource management including job launch as described above HP MPI complies with the MPI 1 2 and MPI 2 standards and is a high performance robust high quality native implementation HP MPI uses OS specitic enhancements to provide l
50. redhat contig users 1 1 18 2 redhat config xtree86 0 7 7 1 LNXHPC redhat java rom scripts 1 0 2 2 redhat logviewer 0 9 3 5 redhat Isb 1 3 3 1 EL3 redhat Isb 1 3 3 1 EL3 redhat menus 0 39 1 redhat rpm config 8 0 28 2 redhat switch mail 0 5 20 1 redhat switch mail gnome 0 5 20 1 rhgb 0 11 2 4 rhpl 0 110 6 1 rh postgresql devel 7 3 8 2 rh postgresql libs 7 3 8 2 rmt 0 4b28 7 roottiles 7 2 6 rom 4 2 3 13 rpm build 4 2 3 rom devel 4 2 3 1 rpm libs 4 2 3 13 rpm python 4 2 3 13 rp pppoe 3 5 4 rsh 0 17 17 rsync 2 6 2 rsync 2 6 3 1 LNXHPC rusers O 17 40 30 2 rwho 0 17 18 samba 3 0 9 1 3E 2 samba 3 0 9 1 3E 2 samba client 3 0 9 1 3E 2 samba common 3 0 9 1 3E 2 gt 2 a Sa 5 3 3 Page 10 QuickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Standard Features expat devel 1 95 5 6 expect 5 38 0 92 2 am 2 6 8 15 am devel 2 6 8 15 bset 2 1 13 etchmail 6 2 0 3 ile 3 39 9 ile roller 2 2 3 6 tilesystem 2 2 1 3 indutils 4 1 7 9 tinger 0 17 18 tinger server O 1 7 18 tirstboot 1 1 31 1 LNXHPC lamethrower 0 1 6 1 lex 2 5 4a 29 fontcontig 2 2 1 13 ontcontig 2 2 1 13 ontilus 0 3 4 oomatic 2 0 2 15 1 treetype 2 P 4 0 freetype 2 1 4 4 0 ttp 0 17 1 gail 1 2 2 1 gaim 1 0 1 1 RHEL3 gawk 3 1 1 9 gcc 3 2 3 49 gcc c 3 2 3 49 gcc c ssa 3 5ssa 0 20030801 48 gcc g 77 3 2 3 49 gcc g 7 ssa 3 5ssa 0 20030801 48 gcc gnat 3 2 3 49 gcc java 3 2 3 49 gcc java ssa 3 5ssa 0 2003080
51. s LSF HPC software LSF and SLURM SLURM is responsible for the allocation of resources to jobs The resources are provided by nodes that are designated as compute resources Processes of the job are assigned to executed on those allocated resources As part of that process assignment setup the original submission environment is replicated within those allocated resources SLURM also provides the means to arrange an XC System into distinct partitions Serial or parallel jobs may be scheduled for execution within a given partition provided that the partition has sufficient resources for example memory or number of CPUs a k a cores to execute that job The entire system can be designated as a single partition allowing parallel jobs to run across all of the CPUs of the XC System Alternatively the system administrator can divide the system into smaller partitions or can set up the system so that users bypass SLURM altogether If the system is configured to bypass SLURM then workload management can be accomplished by standard LSF available from Platform Computing Inc which is also licensed as part of XC DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 1 invent Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Overview System Software Application file YO can be performed to locally mounted storage devices or alternatively to remote storage using NFS or Lustre for high performance and high availability to access the remote
52. sive adaptive dispatch backfill preemptive and job slot reservation An extremely reliable and richly configurable network based queuing system provides maximum flexibility and central administration of all work in the cluster while ensuring that all work submitted to the XC System runs to completion LSF provides comprehensive job management such as tracking and control An extensible LSF checkpoint interface supports application level checkpointing on the XC System when supported by the application In addition LSF tracks job ids and elapsed time on the XC System and provides an accounting log for system utilization and chargeback analysis Accounting information includes submit start and stop time waiting time in the queue can be calculated total user time total system time total maximum memory usage physical and virtual job id user id project id and number of CPUs used by the job The SLURM resource manager allocates access to nodes within the XC System launches parallel and serial jobs manages those jobs and provides IYO control signals limits and so on SLURM allows the administrator to treat the total set of CPUs provided by all nodes as a single large pool Alternatively this set of nodes can be partitioned into a partition for use by LSF jobs and or one or more other partitions where users can directly submit jobs without the use of LSF SLURM is responsible for finding allocating and utilizing a set of nodes that fits t
53. to connect to the SFS using the XC System Interconnect there must be enough switch ports available to accommodate the number of nodes in the XC System as well as the number of nodes required by the SFS see the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share Reference Guide The switches for the combination XC SFS system will be included as part of the Cluster Platform 3000 Cluster Platform 4000 or Cluster Platform 6000 configuration rather than as part of the SFS CA T DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 15 QuickSpecs Configuration Information HP XC System Software V2 1 Disk Space Requirements for System Files The storage configuration must comply depending on whether the XC System is based on Xeon Opteron or Itanium processor architectures with the Cluster Platform 3000 Cluster Platform 4000 or 6000 Reference Guides http www hp com techservers clusters ucp index html Precise file system and partition size requirements are provided in the XC System Software Installation Guide which is part of the XC System Software Administration Documentation Kit Each node must have one local disk with at least 36 GB to be used for system files swap and user data Typical minimal disk requirements for each node are 8 0 GB boot or boot eti 0 2 GB var 4 0 GB cluster 2 0 GB swap Same as memory size to closest 2 GB These sizes are approximate actual sizes may vary depending on the user s system environment con
54. tory or on site of XC software on 129 256 nodes XC five days on site systems software knowledge transfer and six hours of customer integration management OR installation factory or on site of XC software on 257 512 nodes XC ten days on site systems software knowledge transfer and twelve hours of customer integration management Description XC Implementation Program Management XC cluster systems software QuickStart XC Cluster Applications Migration Development and Optimization QuickStart XC Applications Programming and Migration XC Cluster Systems Administration Course XC Implementation Program Management XC Cluster Systems QuickStart XC Cluster Applications Migration Development and Optimization QuickStart XC Applications Programming and Migration XC Cluster Systems Administration Course For more details please see your HP Consulting Services representative CA invent DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Duration 40 hours implementation management consulting 5 days on site consulting and six hours management coordination 5 days on site consulting six hours management coordination 2 days on site formal customer training 4 days on site formal customer training 80 hours implementation management consulting 10 days on site consulting and twelve hours management coordination 10 days on site consulting and twelve hours management coordination 2 days on site f
55. trative Network switch connected to the Cluster Platform Administrative Network root switch in the UBB Cluster Platform Console Network The Cluster Platform Console Network is based on HP ProCurve 2650 Ethernet 10 100 network switches Each Cluster Platform system has a single Utility Building Block UBB which includes a Cluster Platform Console Network root switch In addition each Cluster Platform may have several Compute Building Blocks CBBs each of which includes a Cluster Platform Console Network switch connected to the Cluster Platform Console Network root switch in the UBB The Cluster Platform Console Network root switch is connected to the Cluster Platform Administrative Network root switch CA invent DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 14 Qu ickSpecs HP XC System Software V2 1 Configuration Information XC System Interconnect The XC System Interconnect provides high speed connectivity for parallel applications The XC System supports several different switch fabrics for use as an XC System Interconnect The supported XC System Interconnects for both Cluster Platform 3000 and Cluster Platform 4000 systems are Gigabit Ethernet Infiniband and Myricom Myrinet 2000 In addition the Cluster Platform 4000 also supports as the XC System Interconnect Quadrics QsNet The supported XC System Interconnects for Cluster Platform 6000 systems are Gigabit Ethernet Infiniband and Quadrics QsNet Elan 3 and
56. ts of ProLiant DL145 G1 and or ProLiant DL145 G2 and or ProLiant DL385 G1 and or ProLiant DL585 G1 servers One of the servers usually a ProLiant DL385 server is designated as the head node The head node cannot be a ProLiant DL145 G1 server The head node must have an internal disk drive two processors must have a DVD drive and must be attached to the Cluster Platform 4000 s rack mounted keyboard monitor The choice of a different head node is generally related to whether more PCI slots are required for extra connectivity to external systems Nodes Cluster Platform 6000 The Cluster Platform 6000 consists of Integrity rx1620 and or Integrity rx2600 servers and or Integrity rx2620 servers One of the servers often an rx2620 is designated as the head node This node must have an internal disk drive two processors must have a DVD drive and must be attached to the Cluster Platform 6000 s rack mounted keyboard monitor The choice of a different head node is generally related to whether more PCI slots are required for extra connectivity to external systems Storage Each node must have an internal disk drive Nodes may optionally be attached to an HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1000 MSA1000 In addition the XC System supports high performance file YO with the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share SFS The XC System can be connected to SFS over external Ethernet connections or over the XC System Interconnect When configuring the XC System
57. tware services can be found at the HP website http legal hp com legal tiles Standard Agreements asp CA rika DA 12094 Worldwide Version 5 June 20 2005 Page 22 QuickSpecs Ordering Information HP XC System Software V2 1 A variety of customer service options BAS25A where the asterisks denote variant fields are available from Hewlett Packard for XC System Software Service offerings are also available for additional software packages that may be distributed along with XC System Software but that are otherwise not included as part of the XC System Software For more information contact your local Hewlett Packard office There are also Consulting and Integration Services available for XC System Software and listed below Product Number U5628A 001 U5628A 002 U5628A 003 U5628A 004 U5628A 005 Product Number U5617A U5618A US619A U5626A U5627A U5620A U5621A U5622A U5626A U5627A Description XC one day on site systems software knowledge transfer and five hours of customer integration management OR installation factory or on site of XC software on 1 32 nodes XC two days on site systems software knowledge transfer and six hours of customer integration management OR installation factory or on site of XC software on 33 128 nodes XC three days on site systems software knowledge transfer and six hours of customer integration management OR installation fac
58. vel 2 3 2 95 30 glibc devel 2 3 2 95 30 glibc headers 2 3 2 95 30 glibc kernheaders 2 4 8 34 1 glibc profile 2 3 2 95 30 glibc utils 2 3 2 95 30 gm 2 1 7_Linux 2 1hptc gmp 4 1 2 5 gmp devel 4 1 2 5 gnome applets 2 2 2 2 gnome audio 1 4 0 6 gnome desktop 2 2 2 1 LNXHPC gnome icon theme 1 0 5 1 E gnome libs 1 4 1 2 90 34 2 gnome media 2 2 1 1 4 gnomemeeting 0 96 0 4 gnome mime data 2 2 0 3 gnome panel 2 2 2 1 8 LNXHPC gnome pilot 2 0 10 1 gnome python2 1 99 14 5 gnome python2 applet 1 99 14 5 gnome python2 bonobo 1 99 14 gnome python2 canvas 1 99 14 5 gnome python2 gtkhtml2 1 99 14 5 gnome session 2 2 2 3 LNXHPC gnome spell 1 0 5 1 gnome system monitor 2 0 5 2 gnome terminal 2 2 2 gnome themes 2 2 3 1 gnome user docs 2 0 1 3 gnome utils 2 2 3 1 gnome vis2 2 2 5 2E 1 gnome vts2 extras 0 99 10 3 gpert 2 7 2 9 gpm 1 19 3 27 2 gpm 1 19 3 27 2 gpm devel 1 19 3 27 2 grep 2 5 1 24 groff 1 18 1 27 grub 0 93 4 3 1 LNXHPC gstreamer 0 6 0 5 gstreamer plugins 0 6 0 14 gstreamer tools 0 6 0 5 gtk 1 2 10 31 gtk2 2 2 4 12 gtk2 engines 2 2 0 2 gtk engines 0 12 2 0 gtkhtml2 2 2 0 6 gtkhtml3 3 0 9 7 CA invent DA mozilla 1 4 3 3 0 7 1 LNXHPC mozilla chat 1 4 3 3 0 7 1 LNXHPC mozilla mail 1 4 3 3 0 7 1 LNXHPC mozilla nspr 1 4 3 3 0 7 1 LNXHPC mozilla nss 1 4 3 3 0 7 1 LNXHPC mpage 2 5 3 3 mtools 3 9 8 8 mtr 0 52 2 mt st 0 7 1 1 munge 0 3 1 6hp mute 1 9 6 1 1hptc mutt 1 4 1 3 4 mx 2 0 3 8 mx4j 1 1 1 6 MyODBC 2
59. xternal connections nor does the architecture mandate the use of LVS for such nodes Nodes without external network connections cannot be opened from external addresses but the XC System Software optionally supports Network Address Translation NAT which allows all nodes in the system to open network connections to external addresses NAT can be used for example to include the XC System as a member of a NIS Network Information Services domain File System Each node of the XC System has its own local copy of all the XC System Software files including the Linux distribution and also has its own local user files Every node may also import files from NFS or Lustre fileservers XC System Software supports NFS 3 including both client and server functionality XC System Software also enables Lustre client services for high performance and high availability tile I O These Lustre client services require the separate installation of Lustre software provided with the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share SFS In the case of NFS files these can be shared purely between the nodes of the XC System or alternatively can be shared between the XC System and external systems External NFS files can be shared with any node having a direct external network connection It is also possible to set up NFS to import external files to XC nodes without external network connections by routing through a node with an external network connection The administrator can choos

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