[auton-users] New Auton Compute Node: LOT2

[Michael J. Baysek]

A powerful new compute node is available.  LOT2 does not have a public 
IP address, so to access it you must first ssh into LOP1. 


Number CPU Cores:  16 Processor cores
System RAM:        64 GB RAM
CPU GHz:           2.4 GHz
CPU Type:          AMD Opteron K10


Since this machine is such a big machine, it will be very likely to be 
in use by many people at once.  By all means, get the most use out of 
this machine as you can!


For example, RAM divided by CPU cores is 4 GB per CPU...


If no jobs on the machine are using more than 4 GB, then you are welcome 
to launch jobs until the load average reaches 16.  However, if any job 
(by any user) is consuming more than 4 GB of resident memory, you will 
want to be very careful about loading up all of the CPUs since you could 
run out of memory before you run out of CPUs.


This new machine has already been added to the status page.  When 
planning your jobs, if you are worried about resource contention with 
other users (especially when you're on a deadline) you can always send 
an email to me and I can help coordinate the resources.



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Michael J. Baysek, Systems Analyst
Carnegie Mellon University - Auton Lab
www.cmu.edu - www.autonlab.org
412-268-8939