Best Practice Guide – Generic x86
Vegard Eide, Nikos Anastopoulos, Henrik Nagel · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2013
This guide provides an overview of best practices on using x86 HPC cluster systems. Topics discussed include programming environment, e.g. choice of compiler options and numerical libraries, runtime environment settings, debuggers, performance analysis tools and running jobs in batch systems. The guide is not system-specific, i.e. it will not cover information that is targeted for one specific machine system but instead focus on topics that will be common to systems based on the x86 architecture. To get details about architectures and configurations for specific systems users are referred to system user guides, some of which can be found at http://www.prace-ri.eu/Best-Practice-Guides.