Barley info
From FarmShare
Follow the FarmShare tutorial or the User Guide
current barley policies
- 480 max jobs per user ('qconf -sconf | grep max_u_jobs')
- 3000 max jobs in the system ('qconf -sconf | grep max_jobs')
- 48hr max runtime for any job in regular queue ('qconf -sq trusty.q | grep h_rt')
- 7 days max runtime for the long queue ('qconf -sq long.q | grep h_rt')
- 15min max runtime in test.q ('qconf -sq test.q | grep h_rt')
- 4GB default mem_free request per slot ('qconf -sc | grep mem_free')
Technical details
- 19 new machines, AMD Magny Cours 24 cores each, 96GB RAM
- 1 new machine, AMD Magny Cours 24 cores, 192GB RAM
- ~450GB local scratch on each
- ~100TB in /farmshare/user_data shared across all barley and corn systems (introduced summer 2013)
- Open Grid Scheduler 2011.11p1
- 10GbE interconnect (Juniper QFX3500 switch)
how to use the barley machines
To start using these new machines, you can check out the man page for 'sge_intro' or the 'qhost', 'qstat', 'qsub' and 'qdel' commands.
Initial issues:
- You are limited in space to your AFS homedir ($HOME) and local scratch disk on each node ($TMPDIR)
- The execution hosts don't accept interactive jobs, only batch jobs for now.
- You'll want to make sure you have your Kerberos TGT and your AFS token.
If you want to use the newer bigger storage:
- log into any FarmShare machine: ssh sunetid@corn.stanford.edu
- cd to /farmshare/user_data/<your username> (or wait 5mins if it doesn't exist yet)
- write a job script: "$EDITOR test_job.script"
- see 'man qsub' for more info
- use environment variable $TMPDIR for local scratch
- use /farmshare/user_data/<your username> for shared data directory
- submit the job for processing: "qsub -cwd test_job.script"
- monitor the jobs with "qstat -f -j JOBID"
- see 'man qstat' for more info
- check the output files that you specified in your job script (the input and output files must be in /farmshare/user_data/)
Any questions, please email 'farmshare-discuss@lists.stanford.edu' Some good intro usage examples here: http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/howto/basic_usage.html