13%
31.05.2012
.
Applying these lessons to HPC, you might ask, “how do I tinker with HPC?” The answer is far from simple. In terms of hardware, a few PCs, an Ethernet switch, and MPI get you a small cluster; or, a video card
12%
22.05.2012
that combines the stateless OS along with important NFS-mounted file systems. In the third article, I will build out the development and run-time environments for MPI applications, and in the fourth article, I
12%
08.05.2012
of the difficulties in producing content is the dynamic nature of the methods and practices of HPC. Some fundamental aspects are well documented – MPI, for instance – and others, such as GPU computing, are currently
12%
09.04.2012
facing cluster administrators is upgrading software. Commonly, cluster users simply load a standard Linux release on each node and add some message-passing middleware (i.e., MPI) and a batch scheduler
12%
28.03.2012
/O. But measuring CPU and memory usage are very important, maybe even at the detailed level. If the cluster is running MPI codes, then perhaps measuring the interconnect (x
for brief mode and X
for detailed mode
80%
23.02.2012
Sooner or later every cluster develops a plethora of tools and libraries for applications or for building applications. Often the applications or tools need different compilers or different MPI ...
When people first start using clusters, they tend to stick with whatever compiler and MPI library came with the cluster when it was installed. As they become more comfortable with the cluster, using ... MPI, environment modules, compiler, resource manager ...
Sooner or later, every cluster develops a plethora of tools and libraries for applications or for building applications. Often the applications or tools need different compilers or different MPI
13%
15.02.2012
paths might be worth exploring. In particular, the software issue is troubling. Most traditional HPC code uses MPI (Message Passing Interface) to communicate between cores. Although MPI will work
34%
15.02.2012
to compare multiple strace files such as those resulting from an MPI application. The number of files used in this analysis is 8. The files are:
file_18590.pickle
file_18591.pickle
file_18592.pickle
file ...
Appendix – I/O Report from MPI Strace Analyzer
... Appendix – I/O Report from MPI Strace Analyzer ... Appendix – MPI Application I/O Report from MPI Strace Analyzer
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15.02.2012
Number of Lseeks
/dev/shm/Intel_MPI_zomd8c
386
/dev/shm/Intel_MPI_zomd8c
386
/etc/ld.so.cache
386
/usr/lib64/libdat.so
386
/usr/lib64
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26.01.2012
to compare multiple strace files such as those resulting from an MPI application. The number of files used in this analysis is 8. The files are:
file_18590.pickle
file_18591.pickle
file_18592.pickle
file ...
Appendix – I/O Report from MPI Strace Analyzer
... Appendix – I/O Report from MPI Strace Analyzer ... Appendix – MPI Application I/O Report from MPI Strace Analyzer