[Swift-devel] MolDyn at Purdue

[Ian Foster]

Ok. I think I should stop asking questions (-:

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-----Original Message-----
From: Veronika Nefedova <nefedova at mcs.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:18:10 
To:Ian Foster <foster at mcs.anl.gov>
Cc:iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu, itf at mcs.anl.gov, swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu
Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] MolDyn at Purdue

I think Benoit's group doesn't have any allocation at TG-ANL (they  
have a good allocation at Purdue). It takes quite an effort to  
compile their tools, so I am not sure if Yuqing will be interested in  
trying TG-ANL...
I could try to move apps to TG/ANL on Monday and it see if it runs  
there. Hopefully the Purdue guys will be able to resolve their GT4  
GRAM issues by then...

Nika

On May 11, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Ian Foster wrote:

> One more question: should we be trying the TG-Argonne cluster?  
> Apparently it is fairly idle?
>
> 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?
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> -----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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>>
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