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Exercise session 13: Lustre I/O

The files for the exercises can be found in Exercises/HPE/day4/VH1-io. Untar the file and you'll find a full I/O experiment with striping.

Alternatively, look again at the MPI exercises with Apprentice If you did not do this before, set PAT_RT_SUMMARY=0. You get trace data per rank when you do this (huge file). Set only 2 cycles in the input file (indat). Use app2 on the .ap2 file to see new displays (see help).

Materials

Archived materials on LUMI:

  • Exercise assignments in /appl/local/training/4day-20231003/files/LUMI-4day-20231003-Exercises_HPE.pdf

  • Exercises as bizp2-compressed tar file in /appl/local/training/4day-20231003/files/LUMI-4day-20231003-Exercises_HPE.tar.bz2

  • Exercises as uncompressed tar file in /appl/local/training/4day-20231003/files/LUMI-4day-20231003-Exercises_HPE.tar

Q&A

  1. Is there a typo in the README? For the lfs setstripe -c ${STRIPE_COUNT} -s ${STRIPE_SIZE} ${RUNDIR}/output should the capital -S be used instead of -s?

    • Indeed. I wonder how this was never noted, the error is in the slide also which has been used for 2 years... It turns out to be wrong on the slide (corrected version is now available), wrong in the README (in the project directory, archived version corrected), but correct in the script where -S is used.