Use of the SynfiniWay capabilities for service and workflow development is described in the following product manuals:
SynfiniWay Workflow Editor’s Guide, Version 4.0
SynfiniWay Service Administration Guide, Version 4.0
Copies of these manuals, and any supplemental training material, can be obtained from the HPC Wales system administration group.
The section may be expanded in future editions to describe the conventional best-practice approach to designing and developing SynfiniWay workflows. Subjects to be covered will include:
Identifying the structure of your existing processes.
Specifying the individual stages within the process as services. Creating and publishing services.
10 Appendix I. HPC Wales Sites
S
ITED
ETAILSCARDIFFHUB
Login Nodes
login.hpcwales.co.uk
log001.hpcwales.co.uk
log002.hpcwales.co.uk
log002.hpcwales.co.uk
Queue Names
q_cf_htc_work
SWANSEAHUB
Dylan Thomas Centre(Swansea)
Details of Login Nodes and Queue Names to be to be confirmed
ABERYSTWYTH
TIER-1
Login Nodes
(Aberystwyth University Campus or via login.hpcwales.co.uk)
ab-log-001
ab-log-002
Queue Names
q_ab_mpc_all
BANGORTIER-1
Login Nodes
(Bangor University Campus or via login.hpcwales.co.uk)
ba-log-001
ba-log-002
Queue Names
q_ba_mpc_all
GLAMORGAN
TIER-1
Login Nodes
(Glamorgan University Campus or via login.hpcwales.co.uk)
gl-log-001
gl-log-002
Queue Names
q_gl_mpc_all
SWANSEAMET
TIER-2A
Login Nodes
( via login.hpcwales.co.uk)
sm-log-001
sm-log-002
Queue Names
q_sm_spc_all
NEWPORT
TIER-2A
To be confirmed
GLYNDWR
TIER-2A
Login Nodes
(via login.hpcwales.co.uk)
gd-log-001
gd-log-002
Queue Names
q_gd_spc_all
11 Appendix II. Intel Compiler Flags
C
ODEO
PTIMISATIONSCompiler FLAG
Unless specified, -O2 is assumed
-O0 Disables all optimizations
-O1 Enables optimizations for speed and disables some
optimizations that increase code size and affect speed.
-O2
Enables optimizations for speed. This is the generally recommended optimization level. Vectorization is enabled at O2 and higher levels.
-O3
Performs O2 optimizations and enables more aggressive loop transformations such as Fusion, Block-Unroll-and-Jam, and collapsing IF statements.
-fast
Fast is a collection of compiler flags which, for the latest version of the compiler, expands to "-O3 -xhost -ipo - static -no-prec-div"
-no-prec-div
This option enables optimizations that give slightly less precise results than full IEEE division i.e. division is transformed into multiplication by the reciprocal of the denominator
P
ROCESSORO
PTIMISATIONSUnless specified, SSE level 2 is assumed
-xhost Produces code optimised to run on the processor on which it
was compiled
–xsse4.2 Produces code optimised to run on SSE level 4.2 capable
processors
I
NTERP
ROCEDURALO
PTIMISATIONUnless specified, IPO is disabled
-ipo
This option enables interprocedural optimization between files. When you specify this option, the compiler performs inline function expansion for calls to functions defined in separate files.
P
ROFILEG
UIDEDO
PTIMISATIONUnless specified, PGO is disabled
PGO consists of three phases: Phase one is to build an instrumented executable; Phase two is to run that instrumented executable one or more times (on a range of typical data sets, or on a range of typical parameters) to generate one or more typical execution profiles; Phase three is to build an optimised executable based on information from the generated execution
profiles.
-prof-gen This option creates an instrumented executable (phase one)
-prof-use This option creates an optimised executable (phase three)
OTHER
-static This option prevents linking with shared libraries, causing
executables to link all libraries statically
Notes:
The Cardiff head nodes contain Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz processors which are SSE level 4.2 capable.
The Cardiff HTC compute nodes contain Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz processors which are SSE level 4.2 capable
SSE instructions allow the processor to execute the same instruction on multiple data elements at the same time (SIMD)
SSE level 1 added 70 SIMD instructions to the processor architecture (from 1999 onwards)
SSE level 2 added a further 144 SIMD instructions to the processor architecture (from 2001 onwards)
SSE level 3 added a further 13 SIMD instructions to the processor architecture (from February 2004 onwards)
SSSE level 3 added a further 16 instructions to the processor architecture (from June 2006 onwards)
SSE level 4.1 added a further 47 instructions to the processor architecture (from July 2006 onwards)
SSE level 4.2 added a further 7 instructions to the processor architecture (from November 2008 onwards)
12 Appendix III. Common Linux Commands
The most common Linux commands are shown in the table below.C
OMMANDD
ESCRIPTIONcat [filename] Display file’s contents to the standard output device (usually your monitor).
cd /directorypath Change to directory.
chmod [options] mode filename Change a file’s permissions. chown [options] filename Change who owns a file.
clear Clear a command line screen/window for a fresh start. cp [options] source destination Copy files and directories.
date [options] Display or set the system date and time. df [options] Display used and available disk space. du [options] Show how much space each file takes up. file [options] filename Determine what type of data is within a file. find [pathname] [expression] Search for files matching a provided pattern. grep [options] pattern [filesname] Search files or output for a particular pattern.
kill [options] pid Stop a process. If the process refuses to stop, use kill -9 pid.
less [options] [filename] View the contents of a file one page at a time. ln [options] source [destination] Create a shortcut.
locate filename Search a copy of your filesystem for the specified filename. lpr [options] Send a print job.
ls [options] List directory contents.
man [command] Display the help information for the specified command.
mkdir [options] directory
Create a new directory.mv [options] source
destination
Rename or move file(s) or directories.passwd [name [password]] Change the password or allow (for the system administrator) to change any password.
ps [options] Display a snapshot of the currently running processes. pwd Display the pathname for the current directory.
rm [options] directory Remove (delete) file(s) and/or directories. rmdir [options] directory Delete empty directories.
ssh [options] user@machine Remotely log in to another Linux machine, over the network. Leave an ssh session by typing exit.
su [options] [user [arguments]] Switch to another user account.
tail [options] [filename] Display the last n lines of a file (the default is 10).
tar [options] filename Store and extract files from a tarfile (.tar) or tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz).
top Displays the resources being used on your system. Press q to exit.
touch filename Create an empty file with the specified name. who [options] Display who is logged on.
13 Appendix IV. HPC Wales Software Portfolio
After some 12 months of operation. HPC Wales has accumulated a wide variety of software available to its user community; we continually update the associated application packages, compilers, communications libraries, tools, and math libraries. To facilitate this task and to provide a uniform mechanism for accessing different revisions of software, HPC Wales uses the modules utility (see section 5.4 ). This appendix lists the software available via the module system as of 28th January 2013. This software is classified below under the headings of compilers, languages, libraries, tools, benchmarks and applications. The latter are further broken down into the sector areas of chemistry, creative (industries), Financial, Genomics (life sciences), Materials and Environment.