Altair Accelerator Guides
Altair Accelerator Guides

2021.2.0

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  2. Altair Accelerator User Guide

    Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.

  3. Running a Job

    This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.

  • What's New
  • Accelerator Overview
  • Accelerator Tutorials
  • Altair Accelerator User Guide
  • Altair Accelerator Administrator Guide
Index
Altair Accelerator Guides

2021.2.0

Altair Accelerator Guides
  • What's New

    View new features for Accelerator 2021.2.0.

  • Accelerator Overview

    Discover the available Altair Accelerator guides.

  • Accelerator Tutorials

    Discover Accelerator functionality with interactive tutorials.

  • Altair Accelerator User Guide

    Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.

    • Use Accelerator Help

      Accelerator documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.

    • Accelerator Quick Start

      Accelerator has two main commands, nc and ncmgr.

    • Command Line Interface

    • Quick Reference

    • User Shell Setup

      To set up your user shell with Accelerator you need to know where the Altair Accelerator software has been installed.

    • Running a Job

      This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.

      • Submit Jobs

      • View Job Progress and Results

      • Manage Jobs

        Accelerator provides several commands of job controls, including wait, stop, cleaning and debugging.

      • Rerun Jobs

        The nc rerun command initiates scheduling and executing jobs that are already in the server database.

    • Job Setup Options

    • Schedule Job Submission

    • Modify Running Jobs

    • FairShare Groups

    • Job Placement Policies

    • Clean Up Log Files

      All log files are normally stored under the subdirectory ./vnc_logs. To remove all obsolete log files in the current working directory, use the nc clean command.

    • Debug Jobs without Running Accelerator

      On occasion, jobs that run successfully outside of Accelerator fail when run through Accelerator. When this occurs, mostly likely the setups are not the same: the environment, inputs or other parameters may be different, a misconfiguration or there is a problem with NFS.

    • Job Runtime - Monitor and Profile

      When a job is running through a vovtasker, the tasker automatically monitors RAM and CPU utilization of the job, including all of its children.

    • Monitor the Workload

    • Statistical Information about Resources and Jobs

      Reports provide statistical information about all the jobs that are run during a specified time and the usage of the resources that run jobs. The resources include CPU time, licenses, memory and more.

    • Environment Control

      Setting the environment is critical for correct job execution. Accelerator provides two methods to control the execution environment.

    • Job Resources

      Some jobs may require a specific platform or operating system (OS) to run. As Accelerator automatically lists platform/OS as a tasker resources, the task of finding the right host to execute a job is easy: specify the required platform/OS as part of the job resource requirements.

    • Advanced Information

    • Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting Tips

    • Deprecated Commands

      This section lists the recently deprecated and obsoleted Accelerator commands and options, and the corresponding current commands and options.

    • LSF Emulation

      This document is intended for those who have been using the Platform LSF batch system and are now moving over to the Accelerator system.

  • Altair Accelerator Administrator Guide

    Configure and manage the use of Accelerator after it is installed.

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Altair Accelerator Guides
Altair Accelerator Guides

2021.2.0

  1. Home
  2. Altair Accelerator User Guide

    Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.

  3. Running a Job

    This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.

  • What's New
  • Accelerator Overview
  • Accelerator Tutorials
  • Altair Accelerator User Guide
  • Altair Accelerator Administrator Guide
Index

Running a Job

This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.

Information about submitting jobs will be covered in the sections Submit Jobs with CLI Commands and Submit Jobs from the Browser.
Note: To run a job, the working environment must be set. For information, refer to User Shell Setup.
  • Submit Jobs
  • View Job Progress and Results
  • Manage Jobs
    Accelerator provides several commands of job controls, including wait, stop, cleaning and debugging.
  • Rerun Jobs
    The nc rerun command initiates scheduling and executing jobs that are already in the server database.

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