JLab's experimental physics compute farm is now in production service
with Fedora 8 running PBS/Maui scheduling and resource management. This
cluster has all 80 original test nodes running F8, with both the
'production' and 'fedora' track jobs. The Auger PBS web pages are
located at http://scicomp.jlab.org/scicomp/ and are open offsite. A
second interactive machine is available as IFARML5.
We will begin moving current RHEL3/LSF production batch and interactive
nodes to F8/PBS, roughly 1/3 of the farm and one IFARM each month in
June, July and August. The RHEL3/LSF environment will completely be
converted by September, before the lab's RedHat and LSF support
agreements expire.
The major difference on Fedora 8 machines is the 2.6 kernel with default
compiler gcc 4.1.2; RHEL3 machines have 2.4 kernels with gcc 3.2.3.
More information is available at
https://wiki.jlab.org/cc/external/wiki/index.php/Scientific_Computing#Auger-PBS_.28new.29
Please send requests for assistance to helpdesk@jlab.org.