Using Sun HPC ClusterTools

The Sun HPC ClusterTools software is a set of development tools that you can use to develop parallel applications designed to run on distributed-memory systems.

For Solaris 10, the latest Sun HPC ClusterTools software can be downloaded from the Sun HPC ClusterTools page.

Sun HPC ClusterTools includes the following technologies:

• Open Message Passing Interface (Open MPI) – an open source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. Open MPI is fully compliant with the MPI 2 standard including complete MPI I/O implementation and one-sided communications between MPI processes.

• Open Run-Time Environment (ORTE) – provides a basic set of parallel job management facilities, and includes plug-in modules to support the following technologies:

  • The Sun Grid Engine, which allows parallel jobs to be launched and maximizes the utilization of shared resources.

  • The Portable Batch System (PBS), a job scheduler that allocates network resources to batch jobs on networked, multi-platform environments.

The Sun HPC ClusterTools can be used with the Sun Studio compilers for C, C++, and Fortran.

See the Sun HPC ClusterTools documentation set for complete information about using the ClusterTools software.