aquila Beowulf cluster
aquila is a Beowulf cluster established by Professors Marc Davis and Martin White for the use of their research groups. Bill or Kelley will set it up for you. If you need additional disk space on any of the data disks or cosmo disks, you will need to get Marc Davis or Martin White to request you get access to them respectively.
aquila basics, policy for use
Your home directory on aquila will be: /home/username, but you shouldn't use very much space on /home (that is, no more than 1000Mbyte or so). Instead, users shoudl request space on one of the file systems that are used on aquila, such as /cosmo[1-4]. You're expected to be sensitive to the needs of other users, and be prepared to negotiate for space if necessary.
Similarly, although when you ssh aquila you'll find yourself on the node named master, you are not to do any real computing there (although non-CPU intensive tasks like editing are okay). Instead, all jobs should be run through the queue (see: Using PBS on aquila).
aquila users documentation
aquila software
- IDL
- sm (supermongo)
- Fortran 90 compiler
From Kelley: I have installed Intel's Fortran Compiler for Linux on aquila. It is on aquila only (not accessible from the nodes).Simple way to start is to, after logging into aquila:
source /opt/intel/compiler70/ia32/bin/ifcvars.csh
and the compiler is called ifc (invoke it as ifc myprog.f). You might need to make sure you have a MANPATH environment variable defined before sourcing that file. Please note that we have no support for this software from INTEL...
aquila sys admins documentation
- PBS Installation and maintenance (for admins)
- PBS: Clearing the queue (for admins)
- Bringing nodes online (for admins)
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