Front-end node driftwood + 8 computational nodes ash1, ..., ash8

Each node equipped with Intel Server Board SAI2 with dual Intel Pentium 3/1133 MHz CPU and 2 GB RAM

/home – 84 GB of main storage with user quotas, backed up using HP SDLT320 tape drive

/data – 37 GB of overflow and temporary file storage, not backed up

/tmp and /global_mpi/tmp are also accessible for writing locally on each node

1. Use the front-end node (driftwood) to compile your application.
2. Use the Portable Batch System (PBS) to submit your job. PBS-based Torque ver. 2.2.0 is currently installed.
There are 2 available queues:

normal – no time limit on time, 16 CPUs maximum, execution hosts ash1, ..., ash8

test – 1 hour computational time limit, 2 CPUs maximum, execution host driftwood

For more information on job management, see:

Wiki Torque Documentation: Job Submission

Wiki Torque Documentation: Monitoring Jobs

Wiki Torque Documentation: Canceling Jobs

See also the PBS User Guide (pdf).