Operational news of the MetaCentrum & CERIT-SC infrastructures

1) Upgrade to Debian9 (@wagap-pro PBS server)

2) New special frontend/node oven.ics.muni.cz dedicated for light jobs (master/resubmitting) (@arien-pro PBS server)

We test new OS Debian9 on some nodes (only zewura7 at the moment) of CERIT-SC Centre. The number of machines with OS Debian9 will gradually increase. For upgrades, we will use all scheduled and unplanned outages.

To list nodes with OS Debian9 use Qsub assembler for PBSPro (set resource :os=debian9) https://metavo.metacentrum.cz/pbsmon2/qsub_pbspro

If you do not set anything, your jobs will be still (temporary) running in the default@wagap-pro queue on machines with OS Debian8. If you want to test the readiness of your scripts for a new operating system, you can use the following options:

• To submit job on Debian9 machine, please use "os=debian9" in job specification

zuphux$ qsub -l select=1:ncpus=2:mem=1gb:scratch_local=1gb:os=debian9 …

• Similarly for OS Debian8 use "os=debian8"

zuphux$ qsub -l select=1:ncpus=2:mem=1gb:scratch_local=1gb:os=debian8 …

• For completeness, to run tasks on a machine with any OS, type "os = ^ any"

zuphux$ qsub -l select=1:ncpus=2:mem=1gb:scratch_local=1gb:os=^any …

If you experience any problem with libraries or applications compatibility, please, report it to meta@cesnet.cz.

Please, note OS of special machines available in special queues may differ, e.g. urga, ungu (uv@wagap-pro) and phi (phi@wagap-pro) are running on CentOS 7.

 

   echo "echo hostname | qsub" | qsub -q oven