From jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu  Tue Dec  7 14:25:55 2004
From: jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu (Jacob Joseph)
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:25:55 -0500
Subject: [auton-users] Reservations/Condor Testing
Message-ID: <41B603C3.5050400@andrew.cmu.edu>

To further test the Condor job batch submission system, mentioned last 
week, I have reserved 3 more lops, for a total of: lop2, 5, 6, 7, loq1, 
and loq3.  Lop1, 3, 4, loq2, and lor1 are still available for general use.

If you've got jobs to run, I'd appreciate wider testing at this point. 
Jobs may be submitted using lop1, with the following directions.

1. Create a spec file to tell Condor how to configure and run your job. 
  It is of the form:
--------------------------------------
# configure the job
Executable     = <path from current dir>
Arguments      = foo1 foo2 foo3
Image_Size     = 1300 Meg

Universe       = vanilla

Error  = condor.err.$(Process)
Output = condor.output.$(Process)
Log    = condor.log.$(Process)

# submits the job
Queue
--------------------------------------

Everything but 'Executable', 'Universe', and 'Queue' are optional, but 
the 'Image_Size' is very important for matching with an appropriate 
machine to run on.  The Error, Output, and Log are the respective 
outputs and '$(Process)' is just a number of the run.  If you were to 
queue multiple runs with a number after 'Queue', the process would 
increment for each one.

It is important that your job require nothing other than the Arguments 
here.  That is, it's not going to have any of your standard environment 
variables, path or any such thing.  I do recommend absolute paths if in 
doubt.  You certainly can get around this by using a script with the 
appropriate environment as your executable.  If you're running java 
code, this means you'll have to set the CLASSPATH as a java argument. 
Do note that you may also use "Getenv = True" to submit the job with all 
of your current environment variables.


2. Submit the spec file using the 'condor_submit <foo.spec>' command.

You'll then see it added to the queue, visible with 'condor_q' and 
subsequently matched to an available machine.  You may observe a short 
delay before the job executes.

The status of the cluster machines may be observed with 'condor_status'. 
  Of course, each of these commands has any number of options, but 
hopefully this will get you started.  Do note that in order to allow 
single jobs to utilize all memory in a machine, 'condor_status' will 
report an extra vm (CPU) in each machine.  Don't believe it.  Each is 
still a dual CPU and 2 jobs will be run provided they each use less than 
half the available memory.

There is a comprehensive user manual available at:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.7/2_Users_Manual.html

Thanks,
-Jacob


From adubr at yahoo.com  Tue Dec  7 18:59:11 2004
From: adubr at yahoo.com (Artur Dubrawski)
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:59:11 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [auton-users] Big Thanks!
Message-ID: <20041207235912.69120.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>

Dear Friends,

Thank you very much for the basket which arrived
here in the afternoon and which made such a nice
surprise. 

Keep sending them baskets and I will
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Hope to see you all soon.
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From dongryel at andrew.cmu.edu  Fri Dec 10 17:50:07 2004
From: dongryel at andrew.cmu.edu (Dongryeol Lee)
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:50:07 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [auton-users] Lor1 reservation request
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60-041.0412101749380.11960@unix41.andrew.cmu.edu>

Hi,

I need to reserve Lor1 for experiments. I think I will be done by next 
Friday.

Dongryeol Lee
Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences Senior 05'


From jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu  Sat Dec 11 11:59:07 2004
From: jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu (Jacob Joseph)
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:59:07 -0500
Subject: [auton-users] Opteron reservations
Message-ID: <41BB275B.10409@andrew.cmu.edu>

Lor1 has been reserved for Dongryeol through next Friday.

This leaves lop1, lop3, lop4, and loq2 available for general usage.

12 CPUs are available for use through Condor.

-Jacob


From dongryel at andrew.cmu.edu  Mon Dec 20 11:29:51 2004
From: dongryel at andrew.cmu.edu (Dongryeol Lee)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:29:51 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [auton-users] Opteron reservations
In-Reply-To: <41BB275B.10409@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <41BB275B.10409@andrew.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60-041.0412201129200.4417@unix42.andrew.cmu.edu>

Hi,

Lor1 is now available for use.

Dongryeol Lee
Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences Senior 05'


From jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu  Tue Dec 21 16:01:08 2004
From: jmjoseph at andrew.cmu.edu (Jacob Joseph)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:01:08 -0500
Subject: [auton-users] Cluster firewall
Message-ID: <41C88F14.6040308@andrew.cmu.edu>

Hi.  Due to some suspicious network traffic going out of the cluster 
machines, I have placed further restrictions upon traffic going out. 
While I've allowed the normal services (ssh, http, https, ftp, mysql, 
postgres), it is possible I have inadvertently blocked something you need.

Please contact me if you know you need other outgoing ports.

Thanks,
-Jacob