Contents

Before Starting
About this Guide
Registering to use the SUN Constellation
Getting Help with a problem or query
Getting Started
About the SUN Constellation
Connecting to the SUN Constellation
File Transfer
Interactive and Batch
Software Packages
File Systems
Lustre File System
User Storage Areas
File Systems and Backups
Compiling and Running Programs
Compilers and Options
Compiling: tips and tricks
Optimized Math Libraries
Running Programs on the Sun Constellation
Portability of programs and data from the SX to the Sun Constellation
SGE Batch Use
SGE Projects
Basic Commands
Queue Structure
Options for qsub
Example Batch Job
Interactive Batch Jobs
Options for qstat
MPI, OpenMP and ensemble/background Jobs
Scheduling issues
Submitting Jobs from other hosts
Using MPI
Compiling and linking
Running MPI jobs
Hybrid MPI and OpenMP
Using OpenMP
Compiling and linking
Running OpenMP jobs
Common problems
Known Problems
Changelog
ToDo