Your First Program
From Logging in to Submitting a Job
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Logging in
% ssh -l username franklin.nersc.gov
When you successfully log in you will land in your $HOME directory.
First Program Code: Parallel Hello World
Open a new file called helloWorld.f90 with a text editor such as emacs or vi. Paste the contents of the below code into the file.
program helloWorld
implicit none
include "mpif.h"
integer :: myPE, numProcs, ierr
call MPI_INIT(ierr)
call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD, myPE, ierr)
call MPI_COMM_SIZE(MPI_COMM_WORLD, numProcs, ierr)
print *, "Hello World from ", myPE
call MPI_FINALIZE(ierr)
end program helloWorld
Compile the program
ftn is the name of the Fortran compiler wrapper on Franklin.
% ftn -o helloWorld helloWorld.f90
Create a Batch Script
Open a file called my_batch_script with a text editor like vi or emacs and paste in the contents below. (Use the "view source" or "copy to clipboard" button in the upper right hand corner of the batch script example.) The batch script is used to instruct Franklin's batch system to reserve compute nodes for your job and then how your application should be run on the compute nodes.
#PBS -q debug
#PBS -l mppwidth=8
#PBS -l walltime=00:10:00
#PBS -N my_job
#PBS -j oe
cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
aprun -n 8 ./helloWorld
Submit Your Job to the Queue
The qsub command is used to submit your batch script to run on the Franklin compute nodes.
% qsub my_batch_script
A jobid will be returned, such as 7080540.nid00003
Monitor Your Job in the Queue
After you submit your job, the system scheduler will check to see if there are compute nodes available to run the job. If there are compute nodes available, your job will start running. If there are not, your job will wait in the queue until there are enough resources to run your application. You can monitor your position in the queue with the showq or qs command.
franklin% qs
franklin% qstat -u username
franklin% showq
Examine Your Job's Output
When your job has completed you should see a file called my_job.o[jobid]
Warning: no access to tty (Bad file descriptor).Thus no job control in this shell.
Hello World from 2
Hello World from 0
Hello World from 5
Hello World from 4
Hello World from 3
Hello World from 1
Hello World from 7
Hello World from 6
Application 9535825 resources: utime 0, stime 0
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Job name: mm3
+ Job Id: 7080540.nid00003
+ System: franklin
+ Queued Time: Mon Mar 21 17:14:24 2011
+ Start Time: Mon Mar 21 17:14:47 2011
+ Completion Time: Mon Mar 21 17:15:11 2011
+ User: yunhe
+ MOM Host: nid00339
+ Queue: debug
+ Req. Resources: other=QSUBPID:18484:nid00095,walltime=00:05:00
+ Used Resources: cput=00:00:00,mem=0kb,vmem=0kb,walltime=00:00:24
+ Acct String: mpccc
+ PBS_O_WORKDIR: /global/homes/y/yunhe/shared
+ Submit Args: mm3
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
