This manual presents techniques that application programmers can use to get top performance from message-passing programs running on Sun
servers and clusters of servers.
Before You Read This Book
This manual assumes that the reader has basic knowledge of:
- Developing parallel applications with the Sun MPI and S3L libraries
- Executing parallel applications with the Sun Cluster Runtime Environment (CRE) and a Distributed Resource Manager such as Sun GridEngine, PBS, or Platform Computing's Load-Sharing Facility Suite (LSF)
- Debugging parallel applications using the Prism development environment
How This Book Is Organized
This manual covers the following topics.
- Chapter 1 - Quick Reference - A summary of performance tips
- Chapter 2 - Introduction: The Sun HPC ClusterTools Solution
- Chapter 3 - Choosing Your Programming Model and Hardware
- Chapter 4 - Performance Programming with the Sun MPI (message-passing) library
- Chapter 5 - One-sided Communications
- Chapter 6 - Sun S3L Performance Guidelines, for getting the most from this optimized library of scientific routines
- Chapter 7- Compilation and Linking for top performance
- Chapter 8 - Runtime Considerations and Tuning
- Chapter 9 - Profiling tools and techniques
- Appendix A - Sun MPI Implementation and how it affects performance
- Appendix B - Sun MPI Environment Variables and how to use them
Using UNIX Commands
This document might not contain information on basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.
See one or more of the following for this information:
- AnswerBook2 online documentation for the Solaris operating environment
- Other software documentation that you received with your system
Typographic Conventions
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Examples
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The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output
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Edit your.login file.
Use ls -a to list all files.
% You have mail.
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What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output
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% su
Password:
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Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized. Replace command-line variables with real names or values.
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Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.
These are called class options.
You must be superuser to do this.
To delete a file, type rm filename.
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Shell Prompts
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C shell
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machine-name%
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C shell superuser
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machine-name#
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Bourne shell and Korn shell
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$
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Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser
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#
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Related Documentation
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Application
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Title
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Part Number
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Sun HPC ClusterTools Documentation
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Read Me First: Guide to Sun HPC ClusterTools Documentation
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817-0096-10
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Sun HPC ClusterTools Software
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Sun HPC ClusterTools 5 Product Notes
Sun HPC ClusterTools 5 Installation Guide
Sun HPC ClusterTools 5 Administrator's Guide
Sun HPC ClusterTools 5 User's Guide
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817-0081-10
817-0082-10
817-0083-10
817-0084-10
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Sun MPI Programming
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Sun MPI 6.0 Programming and Reference Guide
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817-0085-10
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Sun S3L
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Sun S3L 4.0 Programming Guide
Sun S3L 4.0 Reference Manual
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817-0086-10
817-0087-10
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Prism graphical programming environment
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Prism 7.0 Software User's Guide
Prism 7.0 Software Reference Manual
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817-0088-10
817-0089-10
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Accessing Sun Documentation
You can view, print, or purchase a broad selection of Sun documentation, including localized versions, at:
http://www.sun.com/documentation
Sun Welcomes Your Comments
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