Date: 27-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/ES-337.xml

Sun Grid Engine Administration (ES-337)

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 advanced 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 overrides scheduling policies.

Lab Information: The hands-on labs offered in this course might involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

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Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are those responsible for installing, configuring, using, and troubleshooting Sun Grid Engine.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to perform routine system administration tasks on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Perform installation tasks and run basic user commands, including: describing the features and architecture of the Grid Engine software; describing distributed resource management (DRM); performing a Network File System (NFS) installation of Grid Engine; and submitting batch and interactive jobs to the grid
Configure Grid Engine, including performing basic queue, host, and cluster configuration; administering complexes; and integrating applications in the grid
Perform advanced tasks, including administering and troubleshooting Grid Engine and configuring scheduling policies

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Course Content

Module 1 - Introducing the Grid Software

Define grid computing and DRM
Describe the types of grids
Define the architecture of Sun Grid Engine
Describe jobs, queues, user types, and host types
Schedule jobs in the grid
Describe the flow of information in Sun Grid Engine
Define High Performance Computing (HPC) environments
Describe the Grid Engine project

Module 2 - 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

Module 3 - 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

Module 4 - 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

Module 5 - 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

Module 6 - 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

Module 7 - Administering and Troubleshooting Sun Grid Engine

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

Module 8 - 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

Module 9 - 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)