How to use Spacetime?

Operating a supercomputing cluster.

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Prerequisite

  1. Download this file and copy it to your spacetime account.
  2. Check if conda is installed, otherwise download and install it in the spacetime acount. Link

Steps

  1. Change error file name on line 2 < to any temporary name >
  2. Change log file name on line 7 <–do–>
  3. Line 14:- source activate < your environment name > // conda env
  4. Line 15:- cd < path to your working directory >
  5. “aprun -n 1 -N 1 -d 16 -cc none -a xt” // Add this to the beginning of your python command and write it in place of any of the previously written jobs.

Submit a job:-

  1. qsub job_sample.pbs

Check running jobs:-

  1. qstat -u < username > // username of your account

Delete a job:-

  1. qdel < jobid >

Note

  1. Comment all other jobs, only one should be active at one time.
  2. A job will run for max 120 hrs, if you want more a special request will be required over mail. Only 8 jobs can run per account and 2 in Queue.

Voila!! Done.

Nikhil Saini
Nikhil Saini
Lead Engineer

My research interests include NLP and Speech.

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