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What is a cluster?

Why do you need a cluster?

How to run a program on Lisa?

Security

Special buttons


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What is a cluster?


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The Lisa system


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The people in the cluster groupJaap Dijkshoorn

Maarten van Ingen

Walter de Jong

Bas van der Vlies

Willem Vermin

Ramon Bastiaans


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Why do you need a cluster?

Run the same program 1000 times

1 processor available

Several processors run the program at the same time


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How to run a program on Lisa?

Available softwareGenehunter, MeV, Mendel, Mx, R, SimWalk, QTDT, Solar, Twinsim, Allegro, GASP, GASSOC, LOKI, Mapmaker, MEGA2, PEDIG, SAGE, TRANSMIT, UNPHASED, Vitesse, Linbugs

Other software: e-mail [email protected]

How to run program ‘mx’ with input file ‘mxinput’ on Lisa?

WinSCP

cd command

create a file

start mx

submit mx to Lisa


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WinSCP


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WinSCP


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cd – change directory


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Copy, create or edit a file

Copy - Copy / Paste as usual in windows

Create:


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File names in Unixcase sensitive

advise: no special characters like !@#$%^&

advise: no spaces


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Edit:


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Start mx


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Start mx


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Start mx

module command


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Start mx


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Submit a job

Why not use the interactive node?Not allowed

system managers will kill your job

Independency Jobs are not dependent of startup terminal shut down PC no problem

1 jobs each time Not possible to run a lot of jobs at ones


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Submit a job

jobscript


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Submit a job


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Submit a job


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Submit a job


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Submit two jobs at one node

Why?Each node contains two processors

A job gets exclusive access to a node

Even a serial job gets a whole node with two processors


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Jobstatus


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Jobstatus


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Remove a job


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Security

Do not share logins

Maintain your workstation/pc

Notify SARA in case of troubles

PasswordChange it at least every year

Use capitals and special characters

Not easy to guess


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Change password


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Change password


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Change password


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Change password


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Submit job button


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Job status button


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Submit job and status button output


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Lisa

Questions?

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Documents

program mx

lot of jobs

jobindependency jobs

file start mx

serial job

filecopy copy

lisa systemthe people

interactive node