[Swift-devel] MolDyn at Purdue

[Ian Foster]

that's scary!

Just out of interest, how big was it? (cpus, time?)

Veronika Nefedova wrote:
> Interesting...
> Apparently, I did submit the reservation for a big run back on Monday 
> (I thought it didn't go through at that time). And it is still in the 
> queue..
>
> tg-login1 nefedova/Falkon_v0.8> showq | grep nefedova
> 995068             nefedova       Idle   286     2:00:00  Mon May  7 
> 10:02:28
> 1000628            nefedova       Idle   340     4:00:00  Fri May 11 
> 10:41:14
> tg-login1 nefedova/Falkon_v0.8>
>
>
> Nika
>
> On May 11, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Ioan Raicu wrote:
>
>> Right, so if we want to get roughly the same execution time of 77 
>> minutes, we would need 34*20 = 680 machines for 2 hours, right?  If 
>> we halve the machine numbers, we can double the time reservation, right?
>>
>> Let me know if you need help with the Falkon settings!
>>
>> Ioan
>>
>>
>> Veronika Nefedova wrote:
>>> Nope, its quite possible. Last week I couldn't submit a single job 
>>> for almost a day -- their queue was completely full! The message was 
>>> something like 'not accepting new jobs in a queue' - or something 
>>> like that. The cluster is ridiculously busy. I could try to submit 
>>> today a reservation for , say, 20 molecules...
>>>
>>> Nika
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Ian Foster wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems unlikely to me that you can't even submit it?
>>>>
>>>> Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Veronika Nefedova <nefedova at mcs.anl.gov>
>>>> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 08:58:12
>>>> To:Ian Foster <foster at mcs.anl.gov>
>>>> Cc:iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu, swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
>>>> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] MolDyn at Purdue
>>>>
>>>> I think we had a problem submitting a big reservation to NCSA - 
>>>> even a smaller ones were in the queue for more then a week at that 
>>>> time. When we did a time estimate on a queue time it said something 
>>>> like 'unable to predict' or 'unable to accept'...
>>>> Ioan - do you remember what was the exact problem?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nika
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On May 11, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Ian Foster wrote:
>>>> I note that we have stopped running at NCSA and switched to trying 
>>>> to run at Purdue. A good thing to try, certainly.
>>>>
>>>> However, could we not have had a big job in the queue at NCSA all 
>>>> this time, also, using Falkon, which would have run by now?
>>>>
>>>> Ian.
>>>>
>>>> Ioan Raicu wrote:Great, than we are set, the project is 
>>>> configurable at the Falkon startup!
>>>> Ioan
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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