Simple Multi-Command Job Array

Mon 13 June 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Tags: HPC, example, Migration

Blog post edited by Pat Bills - "type"

It is fairly easy to map a single variable to a job array. However it gets tricky when you have more than one variables because it is not strait forward to expand the 1D job array. In the past …

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HFSS script

Wed 08 June 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by [Pat Bills]( https://wiki.hpcc.msu.edu/display/~billspat@msu.edu

) - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

HFSS is available on the MSU HPCC. You can run interactively or in batch mode.

You may run the GUI interactive using the iCER …

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Monitoring Job overutilization

Thu 28 April 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

This week I was debugging some user code that was over-utilizing a compute node. The job was intended to use only 1 cpu but one of the job's libraries ended up using all the …

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Running jobs longer than one week using BLCR

Thu 21 April 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

Our submission system is set up with a maximum walltime of one week. This works fine for most users but sometimes it is nice to be able to run a job even longer. The …

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Invited Talk at Hope College

Fri 15 April 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migrated to Confluence 4.0"

This week I was invited by Dr. Ryan McFall in the Hope College CSE department to give a seminar talk about using advanced computational hardware. This time I reordered my slides to be more example focused and I think it …

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Condor compile of Avida

Fri 11 March 2011 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

Today I figured got a condor_compile version of Avida working on TeraGrid. First, I downloaded Avida to my Teragrid account:

> svn checkout https://avida.devosoft.org/svn/stable

Then I modified the build_avida script …

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Simple Matlab Script Wrapper

Mon 30 August 2010 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

Sometimes you have four or five variations on the same MATLAB script. You could write a different submissions script for each variation, or you can constantly edit the submission script every time you need …

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Using mpi pernode option

Wed 25 August 2010 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

The mpiexec (mvapich) pernode option will run a single process for on every machine with the same host name. For example, if you run a job with nodes=16:ppn=2, the job's PBS_NODEFILE …

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Reordering the Eligible Jobs in Your Queue

Tue 17 August 2010 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Blog post edited by Chun-Min Chang - "Migration of unmigrated content due to installation of a new plugin"

I run a lot of different types of jobs with many different resource requirements. Back when we could have up to 144 eligible jobs in the queue this was not a problem. However …

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