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ES-337 --- Sun Grid Engine Advanced Administration

Overview

The Sun Grid Engine Administration course provides students with the necessary skills to install, configure, use, and troubleshoot Sun Grid Engine.

Objectives

The Sun Grid Engine Administration course provides students with the necessary skills to install, configure, use, and troubleshoot Sun Grid Engine. This course describes installation and administration of this product. Students learn how to use the command-line interface to submit interactive and batch jobs to the grid. In addition, students perform basic configuration tasks, such as displaying, adding, modifying, and deleting queue, host, and global configurations and complexes. The course also describes resource management and approaches for troubleshooting failures in the grid. Finally, students learn about the special scheduling features available in Grid Engine including the share tree, functional deadline, and override scheduling policies

PreRequisites

  • System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 2 (SA-202-S10)
  • Administering and Supporting Sun Grid Engine (WE-1600)
  • Perform routine system administration tasks on Solaris OS

 

Who Can Benefit

System Administrators who are responsible for installing, configuring, using, and troubleshooting Sun Grid

Duration

3 days

Course Content

Sun Grid Engine Advanced Administration (ES-337) Content Details

 
 
Introducing the Grid Software
  • Define grid computing and DRM
  • Describe the types of grids
  • Define the architecture of Grid Engine
  • Describe jobs, queues, user types, and host types
  • Schedule jobs in the grid
  • Describe the flow of information in Grid Engine
  • Define High Performance Computing (HPC) environments
Installing the Grid Software
  • Describe the various types of Grid Engine installations
  • Describe the various spooling types
  • Describe the default scheduler profiles
  • Perform an NFS installation of Grid Engine
  • Describe the contents of the primary Grid Engine directories
Submitting Jobs to the Grid
  • Describe Grid Engine commands and job types
  • Submit batch jobs using the qsub command
  • Submit interactive jobs using the qsh, qrsh, qtcsh, and qlogin commands
  • Obtain status information for submitted jobs
  • Administer submitted jobs
Modifying Configuration Parameters
  • Describe the types of Grid Engine parameters you can configure
  • Configure the Grid Engine cluster parameters
  • Configure the Grid Engine host parameters
  • Configure the Grid Engine queue parameters
  • Configure the Grid Engine scheduler
  • Configure Grid Engine users
 
Configuring Resource Management and Load Parameters
  • Describe items that affect resource management: job requirements; resources; global, queue, host, and user-defined resource attributes; and inheritance rules
  • Administer the system complex list, including global, host, user-defined, and queue-related resource attributes
  • Configure the default load parameters and define custom load sensors
Controlling the Event Chain and Integrating Applications
  • Define the Grid Engine event chain and application integration
  • Describe the execution methods
  • Integrate custom applications into Grid Engine
  • Integrate HPC environments
Administering and Troubleshooting N1GE
  • Perform routine administration of Grid Engine queues
  • Examine Grid Engine log files to troubleshoot failures
  • Use command debugging to resolve failed job submissions
  • Obtain and apply patches for Grid Engine
  • Back up the grid engine system configuration
  • Diagnose problems in Grid Engine
Resource Allocation and Scheduling Policies
  • Describe resource allocation and scheduling
  • Describe and configure Grid Engine scheduling parameters
  • Describe and configure the share tree scheduling policy
  • Describe and configure the functional scheduling policy
  • Describe and configure the override scheduling policy
Usage Accounting and Reporting
  • Understand the various methods of gathering accounting and reporting statistics
  • Install and configure the Grid Engine reporting database module
  • Install and use the Grid Engine web-based Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo)



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