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Scientific Computing Users, Please submit jobs to the Auger/PBS test cluster! We need many users to submit farm jobs so that we can see how PBS and Maui perform under load. It's simple to use -- enter the command use auger/pbs before you jsub your jobs. Note that the farm status web pages are available onsite only. They will be opened for offsite access as we move to a production environment. More info is available at https://wiki.jlab.org/cc/external/wiki/index.php/Scientific_Computing under the section "Auger-PBS (new)". An upgraded Fedora Core cluster is in the works; we are currently building FARM and IFARM machines for testing. By switching to FC from RHEL, the lab saves significant maintenance and support costs on our RedHat agreement. We hope to keep compatibility with CUE's RHEL5 environment. Details to be announced shortly. Please plan to come to Wednesday's User meeting if you're onsite, to provide feedback and discuss the timeline for completing the Auger/PBS upgrade and decommissioning the current Auger/LSF RHEL3 farm. Thanks to all who have assisted in testing so far. As always, comments/suggestions welcome... email farm@jlab.org, or call Sandy Philpott, x7152. |
- To: jlab-scicomp-briefs@jlab.org
- Subject: Auger/PBS batch farm available
- From: Sandy Philpott <sandy.philpott@jlab.org>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:38:06 -0500
- CC: Farm and Mass Storage <farm@jlab.org>, Ying Chen <ychen@jlab.org>
- Reply-To: Sandy.Philpott@jlab.org
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The latest addition to the experimental physics offline batch computing farm is available for beta testing/friendly user mode. Currently 30 nodes that can run 5 jobs each are installed; we will be adding more nodes over the coming weeks. Information is available from https://wiki.jlab.org/cc/external/wiki/index.php/Scientific_Computing under the section "Auger-PBS (new)". Please try out the new environment, and provide feedback to farm@jlab.org.