############################################################################### # Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing # # National Facility # # This service is for authorised clients only. It is a criminal # # offence to: # # - Obtain access to data without permission # # - Damage, delete, alter or insert data without permission # # Use of this system requires acceptance of the Conditions of Use # # published at http://nf.apac.edu.au/policies/ # ############################################################################### | Welcome to the APAC National Facility! | | ac.apac.edu.au - a 1928 processor (1.6GHz) SGI Altix 3700Bx2 cluster | | Assistance: help@nf.apac.edu.au Information: http://nf.apac.edu.au | =============================================================================== WARNING - excessive IO to /short affects all; use /jobfs when appropriate Notes: * There is currently a restriction that jobs of > 8cpus must be a multiple of 8cpus. * CPU requests for shared memory jobs (OpenMP, Gaussian, ...) must be of the form -lncpus=N:N to avoid the job being distributed over multiple nodes. * copyq jobs accessing MDSS (e.g. using the mdss command) should include the option -lother=mdss or risk failing when MDSS is down. * Some users may be unaware of the flexibility we have with queue limits. It is possible to give per-user and per-project variations to limits when justified - just contact help@nf.apac.edu.au Aug 26: 20% of AC (ac25-ac30) crashed at about 7am. These nodes were already draining for a 10am downtime to repair an interconnect problem. This problem was the cause of the crash. These nodes had to be rebooted again later after another crash. Apologies. ===============================================================================