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  1. About the Cluster

The managed clusters are:

These machines are the frontend/headnode of the respective clusters. The ibicluster is the production cluster for all users. The ibifast is the same as ibicluster, except that the jobs running more than 24 hours will be cancelled. The brdfcluster is for users who own nodes on brdfcluster. JP cluster is for people from Dr. Jonathan Pritchard's group. For use of jpcluster, please get explicit permission from Dr. Pritchard.

The ibicluster has 256 processors, and ibifast has 64 processors. The production cluster has 256 nodes and the fast cluster has 64 nodes. JP cluster is made of 32 bit machines (dual processors) with varying RAM capacity. All the cluster machines run RHEL v5.2. The clusters are managed using the ROCKS cluster distribution.

  1. Logging in


  1. Using the Cluster


'qsub' and 'qrsh' are the commands to be used (Always!!) for submitting jobs to the clusters. Please avoid submitting to individual nodes directly. Contact the support people if you have special needs for your job.



  1. Job Submission
                                                        o    $ qsub blast.sh 
                                                        o Your job 147606 ("blast.sh") has been submitted.
                                                        o --Script--
                                                        o --------------------------------------------
                                                        o #!/bin/sh
                                                        o #$ -cwd
                                                        o #$ -S /bin/bash
                                                        o #$ -o droso_ecoli.output
                                                        o #$ -e blast_err.txt
                                                        o blastall -p blastn -d /biodb1/blast/ncbi/ntseq/drosoph.nt -i /biodb1/blast/ncbi/ntseq/ecoli.nt
                                                        o ---------------------------------------------
                                                        o --Script explained--
                                                        o Lines starting with #$ are interpreted by the SGE interpreter.
                                                        o line1: #!/bin/sh -> include this in all your shell scripts
                                                        o line2: -cwd -> tells the SGE to run your script from the 'current working directory'. (recommended)
                                                        o (default behaviour - is to run from home directory)
                                                        o line3: -S /bin/bash -> to specify a specific shell other than the default.(recommended)
                                                        o (ex: -S /bin/csh, /bin/tcsh, etc)
                                                        o line4: -o -> to specify the output file (default - 'scriptname'.o????' created by the SGE)
                                                        o line5: -e -> to specify the error file (default - 'scriptname'.e????' created by the SGE)
                                                        o -rw-r--r--  1 kiran ccuser      98 Jun 12 11:20 blast.sh.e147607
                                                        o -rw-r--r--  1 kiran ccuser       0 Jun 12 11:20 blast.sh.o147607
                                                        o line6: the program to be executed
  1. Checking Status of Jobs
                                                        o 
                                                        o $ qstat
                                                        o job-ID  prior   name      user         state submit/start at     queue                   slots ja-task-ID 
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o 147604 0.25000 dim1-9.sh  cbecquet     r     06/11/2006 22:54:14 all.q@compute-0-23.local         1 
                                                        o 121336 0.75000 wrap.sh    babis        r     06/06/2006 10:32:10 all.q@compute-0-9.local          1
                                                        o ********************************************************************************
                                                        o $ qstat -f|more
                                                        o queuename                      qtype used/tot. load_avg arch          states
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o nancy.q@compute-0-32.local     BIP   0/1       0.00     lx26-amd64
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o nancy.q@compute-0-33.local     BIP   0/1       0.00     lx26-amd64
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o all.q@compute-0-22.local       BIP   0/2       0.00     lx26-amd64
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o all.q@compute-0-23.local       BIP   1/2       1.01     lx26-amd64
                                                        o 147604 0.25000 dim1-9.sh  cbecquet     r     06/11/2006 22:54:14     1
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o all.q@compute-0-24.local       BIP   0/2       0.00     lx26-amd64
                                                        o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o 
                                                        o ********************************************************************************
                                                        o $ qstat -u cbecquet
                                                        o job-ID  prior   name       user        state submit/start at     queue                   slots ja-task-ID
                                                        o --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                        o 147604 0.25000 dim1-9.sh  cbecquet     r     06/11/2006 22:54:14 all.q@compute-0-23.local        1 
                                                        o 
                                                        o 
 
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