1.9 High Performance Computing software stack
Figure 1-50 shows the IBM Power Systems HPC software stack.
POE Runtime
Command
Line Parallel
Debugger /
HPC Toolkit
Eclipse Tools
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Figure 1-50 POWER HPC software stack
Table 1-6 describes the IBM Power HPC software stack.
Table 1-6 HPC software stack for POWER
Application Development
Environment
HPC Workbench Integrated
Development Environment
that is based on Eclipse PTP
(open source)
High Scalable
Communications Protocol
Performance Tuning Tools
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User Space
Eclipse PTP Framework
APPLICATION
PESSL
PNSD / NRT
LAPI – Reliable FIFO, RDMA, Striping,
Debug
Failover/Recovery, Pre-emption, User
Infrastructure
Space Statistics, Multi-Protocol,
Scalability
HAL – HFI (GSM), IB
AIX/OFED IB Verbs
HMC
Hardware Platforms: Power, P7IH
Network Adapter(s): Galaxy2, IB HCAs, HFI (GSM)
HFI
CNM
Network(s): IB, HFI-ISR
Available tools for IBM POWER
C and Fortran Development Tools
PTP (Parallel tools platform)
Programming models support:
MPI, LAPI, OpenShmem, UPC
IBM Parallel Environment (MP,
LAPI/PAMI, Debug Tools,
OpenShmem)
Note: User space support IB, HFI
IBM HPC Toolkit (part of PE)
TotalView /
IBM Parallel
Debugger
GPFS
NSD/Linux/AIX
SOCKETS
UDP
Multi-Link - bonding
DD
HYP
Resources
http://www.eclipse.org/photran/
http://www.eclipse.org/ptp/
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/clre
sctr/vxrx/topic/com.ibm.cluster.pe.doc/pebook
s.html
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/clre
sctr/vxrx/topic/com.ibm.cluster.pe.doc/pebook
s.html
Kernel Space
TCP
IP
IF_LS
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