Need CPU time on computing machine (ari)

[Predrag Punosevac]

Srinivasan Vijayarangan <svijaya1 at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Predrag,
> I am trying to run some scripts for the TERRA project on the ari computing machine. The script has been running for a few weeks now, but, its not getting enough cpu cycles. The server is 100% utilized all the time. Since I am operating on the data in the local hard-drive of the ari machine (1.7TB at /mnt/xfsdata/terra) I cannot move to a different machine either. 
> 

I am CC-ing this to users at autonlab.

Dear Autonians,

This is one of those moments when I am asking for your cooperation on
this matter. Srinivasan has to complete the work and moving that much
data to another server is not an option. I ask everyone else to stay
away for few days from Ari. If you have job already running you can take
few hours possibly up to tomorrow to complete your work. 

Since I like to finish on the positive note I would like to let you know
that Dr. Dubrawski and Dr. Poczos have cleared 65K for purchase of new
HDDs for the file server, purchase one small virtual host machine so
that we can recommission Athena, as well as purchase of 3X20K CPU
computing nodes. My hope is that we will double CPU computing capacity
until the Thanksgiving. My hope is that we can repurpose Athena within 2
weeks from now. 

Best,
Predrag





> Is there a possibility to reserve some time on this machine to run this program exclusively. Or can the priority on my process be bumped up. Or should we move the data to a different cpu machine which is relatively free? Or is there anything else we could do?
> 
> Please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Srini.