CONTENTS Table of Contents

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COVER         Book Cover 

NOTICES       Notices 

EDITION       Edition Notice 

CONTENTS      Table of Contents 

FRONT_1       Notices 
FRONT_1.1     Trademarks and Service Marks 

FRONT_2       Who Should Use This Book 

FRONT_3       How this Book is Organized 
FRONT_3.1     Typographic Conventions 

FRONT_4       Related Information 
FRONT_4.1     Accessing This Book off the World Wide Web 
FRONT_4.2     Accessing LoadLeveler Documentation Online 

FRONT_5       What's New in Version 2 
FRONT_5.1     Multiple User Space Tasks per Adapter 
FRONT_5.2     Multiple Tasks per Job per Node 
FRONT_5.3     Multiple Communication Protocols per Task 
FRONT_5.4     National Language Support, Including New Documentation 
FRONT_5.5     Enhanced Checkpointing of Jobs 
FRONT_5.6     New Scheduling Algorithm 
FRONT_5.7     New Command to Extract SDR Data 
FRONT_5.8     New Application Programming Interface 
FRONT_5.9     Command Enhancements 
FRONT_5.10    Graphical User Interface Enhancements 
FRONT_5.11    New Job Command Language Keywords 
FRONT_5.12    Administration File Changes 
FRONT_5.13    Configuration File Changes 
FRONT_5.14    New Environment Variable 
FRONT_5.15    Resource Manager Changes 
FRONT_5.16    Interactive Session Support Changes 

FRONT_6       Migration Considerations 
FRONT_6.1     Resource Manager Functions Now in LoadLeveler 
FRONT_6.2     Keywords Supported for Parallel Jobs 
FRONT_6.3     Migrating Your Existing Adapter Requirements Statements 
FRONT_6.4     Changes in LoadLeveler Command Output 
FRONT_6.5     Changes in the LoadLeveler Release Directory 
FRONT_6.6     Changes in the GUI Resource File 

1.0           Overview of LoadLeveler 

1.1           Chapter 1.  What is LoadLeveler? 
1.1.1         How LoadLeveler Works 

1.2           Chapter 2.  LoadLeveler Daemons and Job States 
1.2.1         Daemons and Processes 
1.2.2         LoadLeveler Job States 

2.0           Using LoadLeveler 

2.1           Chapter 3.  Submitting and Managing Jobs 
2.1.1         Building a Job Command File 
2.1.2         Submitting a Job Command File 
2.1.3         Managing Jobs 
2.1.4         A Simple Task Scenario Using Commands 
2.1.5         Additional Job Command File Examples 
2.1.6         Job Command File Keywords 

2.2           Chapter 4.  Submitting and Managing Parallel Jobs 
2.2.1         Supported Parallel Environments 
2.2.2         Keyword Considerations for Parallel Jobs 
2.2.3         Job Command File Examples 
2.2.4         Obtaining Status of Parallel Jobs 

3.0           Administering LoadLeveler 

3.1           Chapter 5.  Administering and Configuring LoadLeveler 
3.1.1         Overview 
3.1.2         Planning Considerations 
3.1.3         Quick Set Up 
3.1.4         Administering LoadLeveler 
3.1.5         Configuring LoadLeveler 
3.1.6         Keyword Summary 

3.2           Chapter 6.  Administration Tasks for Parallel Jobs 
3.2.1         Scheduling Considerations for Parallel Jobs 
3.2.2         Setting Up to Allow Users to Submit Interactive POE Jobs 
3.2.3         Setting Up to Allow Users to Submit PVM Jobs 
3.2.4         Setting Up a Class for Parallel Jobs 
3.2.5         Setting Up a Parallel Master Node 

3.3           Chapter 7.  Gathering Job Accounting Data 
3.3.1         Collecting Job Resource Data on Serial and Parallel Jobs 
3.3.2         Collecting Job Resource Data Based on Machines 
3.3.3         Collecting Job Resource Data Based on Events 
3.3.4         Collecting Job Resource Information Based on User Accounts 
3.3.5         Collecting the Accounting Information and Storing it into Files 
3.3.6         Accounting Reports 
3.3.7         Sample Job Accounting Scenario 

3.4           Chapter 8.  Routing Jobs to NQS Machines 
3.4.1         Setting Up the NQS Environment 
3.4.2         Designating Machines to Which Jobs Will be Routed 
3.4.3         Sample Routing Jobs to NQS Machines Scenario 
3.4.4         NQS Scripts 

4.0           Command Reference 

4.1           Chapter 9.  LoadLeveler Commands 
4.1.1         Summary of LoadLeveler Commands 
4.1.2         llacctmrg - Collect machine history files 
4.1.3         llcancel - Cancel a Submitted Job 
4.1.4         llclass - Query Class Information 
4.1.5         llctl - Control LoadLeveler Daemons 
4.1.6         llextSDR - Extract adapter information from the SDR 
4.1.7         llfavorjob - Reorder System Queue by Job 
4.1.8         llfavoruser - Reorder System Queue by User 
4.1.9         llhold - Hold or Release a Submitted Job 
4.1.10        llinit - Initialize Machines in the LoadLeveler Cluster 
4.1.11        llprio - Change the User Priority of Submitted Job Steps 
4.1.12        llq - Query Job Status 
4.1.13        llstatus - Query Machine Status 
4.1.14        llsubmit - Submit a Job 
4.1.15        llsummary - Return Job Resource Information for Accounting 

5.0           The LoadLeveler Graphical User Interface 

5.1           Chapter 10.  Graphical User Interface Overview 
5.1.1         Starting the Graphical User Interface 
5.1.2         Building and Submitting Jobs Using the Graphical User Interface 
5.1.3         Customizing the Graphical User Interface 

6.0           The LoadLeveler Application Programming Interfaces 

6.1           Chapter 11.  LoadLeveler APIs 
6.1.1         Accounting API 
6.1.2         Serial Checkpointing API 
6.1.3         The Submit API 
6.1.4         Data Access API 
6.1.5         Parallel Job API 
6.1.6         Job Control API 
6.1.7         Query API 
6.1.8         User Exits 

APPENDIX1     Appendixes 

APPENDIX1.1   Appendix A.  Troubleshooting 
APPENDIX1.1.1 Troubleshooting LoadLeveler 

APPENDIX1.2   Appendix B.  Customer Case Studies 
APPENDIX1.2.1 Customer 1: Technical Computing at the Cornell Theory Center 
APPENDIX1.2.2 Customer 2: Circuit Simulation 
APPENDIX1.2.3 Customer 3:  High-Energy Physics 
APPENDIX1.2.4 Customer 4: Computer Chip Design 

APPENDIX1.3   Appendix C.  Sample Files 
APPENDIX1.3.1 Sample Administration File 
APPENDIX1.3.2 Sample Configuration File 

APPENDIX1.4   Appendix D.  Glossary 

INDEX         Index 

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