[CSC 435] Friday...

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Several of you still have jobs in the queues.  I can extend the deadline
to Friday at midnight -- but after that we have to call it quits.

To MAXIMIZE your chance of getting  jobs to to run quickly DON'T try to
put all of your calculations in one job.  Instead try to do ONE
calculation in a job and specify the minimum amount of runtime that you
need.  For example, the PBS documentation says that its more efficient
to submit 10 jobs, each using 5 minutes of walltime, than is is to
submit one job that used 50 minutes of CPU time.  Supposedly the
"backfill" scheduler will try to squeeze in these jobs.

That being said, if I see jobs that use more than 2 hours of wallclock
time I will delete them.  Share and play nice.

If you need to delete a job and re-run it, the command to delete a job
is "qdel <jobnumber>"


-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj