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PDF document attached on how to use the rain cluster. |
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Question and answer document |
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RAIN diagram |
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When you are accessing data cluster wide you will need to specify the /data name for it. For example; to access the data in /san/cics_sfr you would use: /data/sfr - this path is accessible by all node... |
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To access matlab on the rain cluster. First login to the head node:
$ ssh rain.umd.edu
Next request an interactive session from a compute node:
[rreese@rain ~]$ qrsh
If you want to request more sl... |
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If you need to access a gui for matlab, you can tunnel a X session over ssh from your linux machine to a compute node by doing the following:
On your workstation:
$ ssh -L 2120:compute-0-0:22 rain.u... |
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You can use the following command switch to specify the node you want to access: $ qrsh -l h='compute-0-2' Substitute compute-0-2 for the compute node you want to access. |
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To see how many compute nodes are in the cluster and what they are named you can use the following command:
$ rocks list host
HOST MEMBERSHIP CPUS RAC... |
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Submitting jobs to SGE from cron.
To do this you need to modify your crontab to have the following:
SGE_ROOT=/opt/gridengine
SGE_ARCH=`$SGE_ROOT/util/arch`
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The attached PDF provides information for connecting to IDV on the rain cluster from Windows Thin Clients. |
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