Alamo
Alamo is a 96 node Dell cluster running 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon X5550 processors. The OS is CentOS 5.8 and 6.3. It runs Torque and Moab for scheduling. Alamo has a QDR IB interconnect and 15 TB of attached disk storage. Alamo is partitioned into different resources for Nimbus and HPC. See the Alamo hardware page for more detail: http://archive.futuregrid.org/hardware/alamo .
Nimbus partition - see nimbus documentation: http://archive.futuregrid.org/tutorials/nimbus
HPC partition
Max cores 584. Submit ticket if you need to run larger than the 320 limit per user.
Available queues:
short - 24 hours runtime limit
long - 72 hours runtime limit
After registering your .ssh key on the portal, go to http://archive.futuregrid.org/manual/access .
If you key has been uploaded, you can ssh to the login node using the following command.
Note: If you are prompted for a password, your account has not been set up correctly or the .ssh key has not been propagated.
ssh alamo.futuregrid.org
To submit a test job use the qsub command.
ex. qsub -N job_name -l nodes=1 -q short job_script
module avail
File systems:
/home - Quota enforced home directory, backed up nightly.
/N/work - 6.3 TB work directory, not backed up. NFS mounted from login node.
/N/images - 11 TB directory for system images, not backed up. NFS mounted from login node.
Administrator: David Gignac
For issues or questions please use https://tickets.futuregrid.org . You can conveniently submit a ticket via http://archive.futuregrid.org/help. To look at your previously submitted tickets you can use http://archive.futuregrid.org/tickets .
Nimbus partition - see nimbus documentation: http://archive.futuregrid.org/tutorials/nimbus
HPC partition
Max cores 584. Submit ticket if you need to run larger than the 320 limit per user.
Available queues:
short - 24 hours runtime limit
long - 72 hours runtime limit
After registering your .ssh key on the portal, go to http://archive.futuregrid.org/manual/access .
If you key has been uploaded, you can ssh to the login node using the following command.
Note: If you are prompted for a password, your account has not been set up correctly or the .ssh key has not been propagated.
ssh alamo.futuregrid.org
To submit a test job use the qsub command.
ex. qsub -N job_name -l nodes=1 -q short job_script
- qstat - show current jobs in the queue with status
- showq - show current running and queued jobs and job id
- checkjob -v <jobid> - more detailed information about your job
module avail
File systems:
/home - Quota enforced home directory, backed up nightly.
/N/work - 6.3 TB work directory, not backed up. NFS mounted from login node.
/N/images - 11 TB directory for system images, not backed up. NFS mounted from login node.
Administrator: David Gignac
For issues or questions please use https://tickets.futuregrid.org . You can conveniently submit a ticket via http://archive.futuregrid.org/help. To look at your previously submitted tickets you can use http://archive.futuregrid.org/tickets .
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