Getting Started - Farm Jobs
Using the Jefferson Lab Farm
Documentation
This wiki is to be used as a conglomerate of resource links and practice. The documents here are not necessarily the most up-to-date, but it serves as a starting point for new users to get familiar with the JLab HPC environment and get some hands-on practice. Here is a list of useful information:
- Farm Usage
- Brad's famous JLab Compute Resources "How-to"
- Farm Users Guide
- Analyzer Information
- Ole's 2019 Hall A/C Analyzer Software Overview
- 2018 Joint A/C Analysis Workshop
- hcana docs
Overview
All current tasks in the XEM2 group require submitting many single-core jobs to the farm using either SWIF or AUGER. hcswif is used to submit replay jobs run-by-run to the farm nodes to run in parallel using SWIF (Outlined in the Farm Users Guide). Auger is used to submit multiple single-core jobs that do not need to access the tape library. This includes running multiple mc-single-arm instances, or running rc-externals with multiple cores. The following example(s) are in support of the XEM2 use case.
AUGER
- Practice submitting stuff...
SWIF
- Practice submitting stuff...
Using hcswif
hcswif is used to submit many analysis jobs based on run-number.
- cache.sh in u/group/c-xem2/software/hcswif/run-lists/tools to pull replays from tape to cache (using jcache)
- Sample usage: cache.sh
Troubleshooting
Common commands and difficulties with jobs
