[Neolith-users] Neolith: projinfo and nscjobinfo

[Lennart Karlsson]

Dear Neolith user,

First version of two new Neolith tools is now available
for use on the login node.

The first one is "projinfo", perhaps well known to those
of you that use Monolith and Mozart. It takes no
parameters and tells you how much of your project's
monthly allocation you have used during the last month,
i.e. it goes back one month in time and counts from
there.

On Monolith and Mozart it counts from the beginning of
the current month, which makes a huge difference
compared to the Neolith behaviour during the first
days of a month.

The second one is "nscjobinfo". If you run it without
parameters, it tells a little about the general rules
for job scheduling on Neolith and then tells you a
little about each of your jobs. For running jobs it
tells you about the current load average, i.e. CPU
usage, on the nodes it is using

The most important part is probably that it hints you
about why your blocked jobs are blocked.

To get information about only one or a few jobs, you
may instead call "nscjobinfo" with those job numbers
as parameters.

Please give feedback to support at nsc.liu.se, if you see
any problems with these tools or if you recognize a
potential for improvement.

Best regards,
-- Lennart Karlsson <support at nsc.liu.se>
   National Supercomputer Centre, Linkoping University
   http://www.nsc.liu.se