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If your job does not use the system openmpi, or does not use MPI, then any desired core binding will need to be set up with whatever mechanism the software uses. Otherwise, there will be no core binding. Again, that may not be a major issue. If your job does not work well with HT then run on a number of cores equal to half of the number of slots requested and the OS scheduler will minimize contention.
new SGE utilities
While SoGE is very similar to previous versions of SGE there are some new utilities that people may find of interest. There are manual pages for each of these.
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On previous UI HPC systems it was possible to briefly ssh to any compute node, before getting booted from that node if a registered job was not found. This was sufficient to run an ssh command, for instance, on any node. This is not the case for Argon. SSH connections to compute nodes will only be allowed if you have a registered job on that host. Of course, qlogin sessions will allow you to login to a node directly as well. Again, if you have a job running on a node you can ssh to that node in order to check status, etc. You can find the nodes of a job with the nodes-in-job command mentioned above. We ask that you not do more than observe things while logged into the node as it may have shared jobs on it.
Software Packages
While there are many software applications installed from RPM packages, many commonly used packages, and their dependencies, are built from source. See the Argon Software List to view the packages and versions installed. Note that this list does not include all of the dependencies that are installed, which will consist of newer versions than those installed via RPM. Use of these packages is facilitated through the use of environment modules, which will set up the appropriate environment for the application, including loading required dependencies. Some packages like Perl, Ruby, R and Python, are extendable. We build a set of extensions based on commonly used and requested extensions so loading modules for those will load all of the extensions, and dependencies needed for the core package as well as the extensions. The number of extensions installed, particularly for Python and R is too large to list here. You can use the standard tools of those packages to determine what extensions are installed.
Setting default shell
Unix attributes are now available in the campus wide Active Directory Service and Argon makes use of those. One of those attributes is the default Unix shell. This can be set via the following tool: Set Login Shell - Conch. Most people will want the shell set to /bin/bash so that would be a good choice if you are not sure. For reference, previous generation UI HPC systems set the shell to /bin/bash for everyone, unless requested otherwise. We recommend that you check your shell setting via the Set Login Shell - Conch tool and set it as desired before logging in the first time. Note that changes to the shell setting may take up to 24 hours to become effective on Argon.
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