qsub
Command on the RCFThe Research Computing Facility (RCF) provides a high-performance computing environment for USC users.
almaak is now a research development resource intended for
editing, compiling and submitting jobs to rcf-01
(and to the single-proc netras at rcf101-hpc116).
The hpcc
cluster (Linux Computing Resource) and
rcf-01
(Sun Computing Resource)
are USC's preferred environments for
high-performance computing.
Jobs that are compute-intensive and/or long-running (in terms of
cpu time) must now be submitted to rcf-01.
rcf-01 operates as a batch resource only.
Users do not login or telnet to rcf-01.
Jobs run on this facility, or on
hpc-login1 (32 bit) or
hpc-login2 (64 bit), may be submitted by way of the
qsub command, which is part of the Portable Batch
System (PBS) on the RCF.
Access to hpcc and rcf-01 is be regulated and requires users to apply for accounts and provide rationale for their work. Anyone with an RCF account is eligible to apply. Please follow these links for more information:
HPCC Allocation Policy
HPCC Allocation Request Forms
Help for New Users
Once access has been approved, the PBS system (including the man pages) should be available to RCF users at all times. Normally access is set up (the setup file is sourced) automatically in the RCF or hpc master.login file. If access is not set up, the PBS setup file must be sourced in order to use the PBS system (as explained in the documentation linked below) using the following command:
source /usr/usc/pbs/default/setup.csh
The normal RCF access to the PBS system (or, if necessary,
sourcing this setup file) also gives you access to the
qsub and PBS man pages as follows:
man qsubman pbsman pbs_resources_linux(The last of these is appropriate for all resources on rcf-01.)
Further documentation for these new features of the RCF is being developed, and is available as follows:
qsub
command for batch queueing of statistics software jobs
ssh hpc-login1 (or equivalent command; 32 bit)ssh hpc-login2 (or equivalent command; 64 bit)