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The backend job scheduler is Gridengine, which is different from the PBS used by NCI, but both work similarly

Submit a Batch Job

A batch job can be submitted by using command qsub, in the following pattern:

Code Block
qsub -b y -N JOB_NAME -pe smp NUMBER_OF_CPU -l RESOURCE1 RESOURCE2 RESOURCE3

The following tables summarises the common resources which can be specified in the qsub command:

Parallel Environments (-pe)

Parallel environments is the way of specifying the number of CPUs,

PE

smp

Allocate X number of CPUs on the SAME compute node

mpi

Allocate X number of CPUs from multiple compute node, this is mainly used by a job that implemented under Open MPI.