Steam Engine Cluster Users Guide

Author: Eric Nodwell

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Abstract

Users' guide for the Steam Engine cluster with instructions for using the Maui Scheduler and with programming examples.



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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. General Guidelines

3. Submitting Jobs to the Maui Scheduler

3.1. What's a Wall Time?
3.2. Example: Compiling and submitting a serial job written in C
3.3. Example: Compiling and submitting a serial job written in Fortran
3.4. Example: Submitting a serial Matlab job
3.5. Example: Compiling and submitting a parallel MPI job written in C
3.6. Example: Compiling and submitting a parallel MPI job written in Fortran

4. Installed Software

4.1. Compilers

4.1.1. gcc
4.1.2. Lahey Fortran
4.1.3. Intel compilers

4.2. Integrated Mathematical Environments

4.2.1. Matlab

4.3. Math Libraries

4.3.1. BLAS, ATLAS, LAPACK, BLACS and ScaLAPACK (linear algebra)

4.3.1.1. Example: Compiling a Fortran program which calls ScaLAPACK

4.3.2. GNU Scientific Library

4.3.3. sfftw and p4fftwgel (fast fourier transforms)

4.3.4. PETSc (partial differential equations)

4.3.5. Numerical Python and Scientific Python

5. Tips

5.1. Complex Variables in C

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