sPHENIX discussion of software

[pinkenburg <pinkenburg AT bnl.gov>]

Hi folks,

leave it to me to get the names wrong

it is sphnx01 and sphnx02

Sorry about that

Chris


On 6/29/2020 5:17 PM, pinkenburg wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> we have two interactive hosts for sphenix - sphenix01 and sphenix02. 
> They are identical to the other interactive nodes but we can fine tune 
> this (within limits - 100GB jobs won't run) .
>
> The main reason for their existence is that it depends on the 
> submission machine into which queue the jobs get submitted. Jobs 
> submitted from these machines go into the sphenix condor queue which 
> has its own allocation of condor slots.
>
> There seems to be an issue with condor with large memory allocation 
> which prevents sphenix jobs to start quickly. They do start but I have 
> seen delays of 24 hours. Since this is a separate queue queue we might 
> be able to do something about that on the queue level (at least there 
> will be no low memory phenix jobs out-competing the sphenix jobs).
>
> Please give this a shot, lets see how this goes, especially in terms 
> of jobs starting with a reasonable waiting period
>
> Chris

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