Serial Application Build Environment |
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You can build and run serial applications in the HP XC programming
environment. A serial application is a command or application that
does not use any form of parallelism.
An example of a serial application is a standard
Linux command, such as the ls or hostname command. A serial application is basically a single-core application
that has no communication library calls such as MPI.
Building Serial Applications |
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This section discusses how to build serial applications
on an HP XC system. Compiling, linking, and running serial
applications are discussed.
To build a serial application, you must be logged
in to an HP XC node with the login role. Serial applications
are compiled and linked by invoking compilers and linkers.
You launch a serial application either by submitting
it to LSF-HPC with the bsub command, or by
invoking the srun command to run it. The process
is similar to launching a parallel application, except that only one compute node core is used. To run on an
compute node processor, the serial application and any required dynamic
libraries must be accessible from that node. A serial application
can also be tested locally by running it on the login node.
Compiling and Linking Serial Applications
Serial applications are compiled and linked by
invoking compile and link drivers.
You can change compilers by using modules. For
information about using modules, see “Overview of Modules”.
As an alternative to using dynamic libraries, serial
applications can also be linked to static libraries. Often the -static option is used to do this.
For examples of building serial applications with
the GNU C, GNU Fortran, and Intel C/C++, and Intel Fortran compilers,
see “Building and Running a Serial Application”.
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