ZOID

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Introduction

ZOID is an I/O forwarding component of the ZeptoOS project. Any communication between the compute nodes and I/O nodes (job management, file I/O, sockets) is facilitated by ZOID.

ZOID infrastructure consists of:

• Multithreaded zoid daemon on the I/O nodes which performs I/O forwarding for the compute nodes and which also communicates with the service node to perform job management,
• control daemon on the compute nodes which is responsible for job management tasks such as launching application processes, for the forwarding of stdin/out/err data, and for forwarding of IP packets,
• zoid-fuse daemon on the compute nodes which performs file I/O forwarding for POSIX-compliant applications.

User interface

User script

Right before a job starts running, and right after the last process of a job has terminated, ZOID daemon attempts to invoke a user script on I/O nodes. By default, the daemon invokes $HOME/zoid-user-script.sh (this pathname can be changed by an administrator). A single parameter is passed to the script: 1 at the job startup, and 0 at the termination.

A number of environment variables are also passed to the script:

ZOID_JOB_ID

BG/P control system job id (Note: this is generally different from the Cobalt job ID; see FAQ for the latter),

ZOID_JOB_MODE

0 for SMP, 1 for VN, and 2 for DUAL,

ZOID_JOB_GLOBAL_SIZE

number of processes in the job (size of MPI_COMM_WORLD),

ZOID_JOB_LOCAL_SIZE

number of job processes handled by this I/O node,

ZOID_JOB_EXEC

name of the job executable,

ZOID_JOB_ARGS

job arguments, separated by a :

ZOID_JOB_ENV

job environment variables, separated by a :

SHELL, PATH, USER, and HOME

will also be set for your convenience...

Administrator interface

Command line options

-u

Programmer interface

Building a new plugin

Replacement libc?

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