Recommendations for HPC Platform Verification

For general notes on running memtester, IOZone, IMB and HPL see - https://github.com/alces-software/knowledgebase/wiki/Burn-in-Testing

Further details can be found at:

• Memtester
• IOZone
• IMB
• HPL

Checking Hardware and Software Configuration

• Check CPU type:

  pdsh -g groupname 'grep -m 1 name /proc/cpuinfo'
  

• Check CPU count:

  pdsh -g groupname 'grep processor /proc/cpuinfo |wc -l'
  

• Check RAID active:

  pdsh -g groupname 'cat /proc/mdstat | grep md[0-1]'
  

• Check Infiniband up/active:

  pdsh -g groupname 'ibstatus |grep phys'
  

• Check free memory:

  pdsh -g groupname 'free -m |grep ^Mem'
  

• Check GPU type and count:

  pdsh -g groupname 'nvidia-smi'
  

• Grab serial numbers:

  pdsh -g groupname 'dmidecode -t baseboard |grep -i serial'