A examples, A.1 building and running a serial application, Section a.1 – HP XC System 2.x Software User Manual

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A

Examples

This appendix provides examples that illustrate how to build and run applications on the HP XC
system. The examples in this section show you how to take advantage of some of the many
methods available, and demonstrate a variety of other user commands to monitor, control, or
kill jobs.

The examples in this section assume that you have read the information in previous chapters
describing how to use the HP XC commands to build and run parallel applications. Only
examples of building and running applications are provided in this section — detailed
information about the commands is not provided.

A.1 Building and Running a Serial Application

This example show how to build a simple application, called

hello world

, and launch it

with the SLURM

srun

command.

The following is the source code for the

hello world

program, located in file

hw_hostname.c

.

#include <unistd.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{

char name[100];

gethostname(name, sizeof(name));

printf("%s says Hello!\n", name);

return 0;

}

The

hello world

program is compiled in the usual way:

$ cc hw_hostname.c -o hw_hostname

When run on the login node, it shows the name of the login node;

n16

in this case:

$ ./hw_hostname

n16 says Hello!

srun

can be used to run it on one of the compute nodes. This time it lands on

n13

:

$ srun ./hw_hostname

n13 says Hello!

srun

can also be used to replicate it on several compute nodes. This is not generally useful, but

is included for illustrative purposes.

$ srun -n4 ./hw_hostname

n13 says Hello!

n13 says Hello!

n14 says Hello!

n14 says Hello!

A.2 Launching a Serial Interactive Shell Through LSF

This section provides an example that shows how to launch a serial interactive shell through
LSF. The

bsub -Is

command is used to launch an interactive shell through LSF. This example

Examples

A-1

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