User’s Guide

• Preface
• Scyld ClusterWare Overview
• What Is a Beowulf Cluster?
  • A Brief History of the Beowulf
  • First-Generation Beowulf Clusters
  • Scyld ClusterWare: A New Generation of Beowulf
• Scyld ClusterWare Technical Summary
  • Top-Level Features of Scyld ClusterWare
  • Process Space Migration Technology
  • Compute Node Provisioning
  • Compute Node Categories
  • Compute Node States
  • Major Software Components
• Typical Applications of Scyld ClusterWare
• Interacting With the System
  • Verifying the Availability of Nodes
  • Monitoring Node Status
    • The BeoStatus GUI Tool
    • The bpstat Command Line Tool
    • The beostat Command Line Tool
  • Issuing Commands
    • Commands on the Master Node
    • Commands on the Compute Node
  • Copying Data to the Compute Nodes
    • Sharing Data via NFS
    • Copying Data via bpcp
    • Programmatic Data Transfer
    • Data Transfer by Migration
  • Monitoring and Controlling Processes
• Running Programs
  • Program Execution Concepts
    • Stand-Alone Computer vs. Scyld Cluster
    • Traditional Beowulf Cluster vs. Scyld Cluster
    • Program Execution Examples
  • Environment Modules
  • Running Programs That Are Not Parallelized
    • Starting and Migrating Programs to Compute Nodes (bpsh)
    • Copying Information to Compute Nodes (bpcp)
  • Running Parallel Programs
    • An Introduction to Parallel Programming APIs
    • Mapping Jobs to Compute Nodes
    • Running MPICH and MVAPICH Programs
    • Running OpenMPI Programs
    • Running MPICH2 and MVAPICH2 Programs
    • Running PVM-Aware Programs
    • Porting Other Parallelized Programs
  • Running Serial Programs in Parallel
    • mpprun
    • beorun
  • Job Batching
    • Job Batching Options for ClusterWare
    • Job Batching with TORQUE
    • Job Batching with POD Tools
  • Using Singularity
  • File Systems
• Glossary of Parallel Computing Terms
• TORQUE and Maui Release Information
• OpenMPI Release Information
• MPICH2 Release Information
• MPICH-3 Release Information
  • CHANGELOG
  • Release Notes
• MVAPICH2 Release Information
• SLURM Release Information