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  • In HPC, there are three work locations (file systems):
    • Home dir <cd or cd $HOME>
    • Work dir
    • Scratch dir <cds or cd $SCRATCH>
  • Longhorn directly exposes home and scratch, but not work
  • There's There’s no quota on scratch, but those files will get deleted fairly often, as often as weekly.
  • Depends on last time files were accessed.
  • If you need to keep some files for a while, log in daily and touch all the files.
  • For example in scratch directory:
    • cds
    • touch
    • find . --exe touch {} \:

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  • Launcher1 is the submit script
  • Read the batch queue info at http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/user-services/user-guides/longhorn-user-guide . (see "Running “Running your Applications)
  • For the first large scale range model run, Edwin used the normal queue
  • There is a priority for long queue jobs.
  • There's There’s a limit to the number of jobs a user can run at a time.
    • The others are held in queue
  • The # alone indicates a comment.
  • If # is followed by $ or @ it indicates parameters.
    • # comment
    • #$, #@ are parameters
  • job – one or more tasks
  • -pe 8way queues 8 jobs at once
  • Edwin had to submit another job with tasks that didn't didn’t finish.
  • module load launcher - sets up the environment
  • qsub - sumits job to the queue
  • qstat – tells you if job is running, where, how long, etc.
  • Parameters in launcher1 are defined in longhorn documentation (user guide)

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