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Specifying Maximum and Minimum Walltime in Torque

Specifying Maximum and Minimum Walltime in the queue or globally within the Torque configuration is important or you have users who uses without restraint. At Torque Server, you can set maximum...

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Diagnostic Tools to diagnose Infiniband Device

There are a few Diagnostic Tools to diagnose Infiniband Devices.ibv_devinfo (Query RDMA devices)ibstat (Query basic status of InfiniBand device(s))ibstatus (Query basic status of InfiniBand...

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Unable to SSH due to failure of authentication with GSSAPI

I have a very slow or failed ssh connection due to failure with authentication with GSSAPI. See below my error.....debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-with-mic,passworddebug1:...

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Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode Vsim Tutorial

10 steps to a 2-node Data ONTAP 8.1.1 Cluster-Mode Vsim cluster. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=prEf5J0wvi0

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Unable to restart pbs_mom on nodes

I was unable to restart the pbs_mom from one of the compute node. A look at the log file at /var/spool/torque/mom_logs shows  # less /var/spool/torque/mom_logspbs_mom;Svr;pbs_mom;LOG_ERROR::pbs_mom,...

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General run-time tuning for Open MPI 1.4 and later (Part1)

Taken from 17. How do I tell Open MPI to use processor and/or memory affinity in Open MPI v1.4.x? (How do I use the –by* and –bind-to-* options?) During the mpirun, you can put in the parameter of the...

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Useful Repositories for CentOS 5

RPMForge - This repository is a collaboration of Dag i386 # wgethttp://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpmx86_64 #...

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Display information about the Open MPI installation - ompi_info

ompi_info provides detailed information about the Open MPI installation. It is useful for checking local configuration and seeing how Open MPI was installed and listing of installed Open MPI Plugins...

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Handling inputs flies on PBS

The writeup on linuxcluster "Handling inputs flies on PBS" shows how you can handle inputs files on PBS both on Single Input File (Serial Run) and Multiple Input Files (Serial Run).Do read

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Show Start Estimate for MAUI

The reference is taken from showstart reference from MOAB Workload ManagerThis command displays the estimated start time of a job. Since MAUI is a free basic version of MOAB, from what I know, we do...

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Installing PHP 5.4 on CentOS 5

First thing first, install the Repository as listed in Useful Repositories for CentOS 5 especiallyIUS Community Repository.Once you have installed repositories, do the following#  yum install php54...

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Displaying Repository List with yum

If you wish to display a list of configured repositories which are enabled, you can use the command # yum repolistrepo id        repo name                                                  statusepel...

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Error when yum install ganglia on CentOS 5.8

 I was doing a yum install of Ganglia on CentOS 5.8, # yum install php rrdtool ganglia ganglia-gmetad ganglia-gmond ganglia-web httpdI got the error as below.  ganglia-web-3.1.7-3.el5.rf.x86_64 from...

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Running OpenMPI in oversubscribe nodes

Taken from OpenMPI FAQ  21. Can I oversubscribe nodes (run more processes than processors)? Open MPI basically runs its message passing progression engine in two modes: aggressive and...

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SingCERT Alerts - SPAM Emails from Yahoo Accounts

The Singapore Computer Emergency Response Team (SingCERT) has received reports of spam emails from Yahoo! accounts containing links to websites selling “work from home” schemes and packages.The spam...

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Finding the user who used excessive memory and crash the Server

Using linux tools, we can quickly deduce the users who have crashed the system. For me, one of the harder to trace are researchers who run large memory arrays. And if the array is not calculated...

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xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed

If you encountered this error xrdp_mm_process_login_response: login failed when you use the remote desktop connection to connection to a vnc session. Even if you restart xrdp, the error still remain,...

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Sequential execution of the Parallel or serial jobs on OpenPBS / Torque

If you have an requirement to execute jobs in sequence after the 1st job has completed, only then the 2nd job can launch, you can use the -W command For example, if you have a running job with a job ID...

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Using iostat to report system input and output

The iostat command is used to monitor system input/output device loading by observing the time the device are active in relation to their average transfer rate.# iostat -m 2 10 -x /dev/sda1avg-cpu:...

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Running Linpack (HPL) Test on Linux Cluster with OpenMPI and Intel Compilers

HPL is a software package that solves a (random) dense linear system in double precision (64 bits) arithmetic on distributed-memory computers. It can thus be regarded as a portable as well as freely...

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