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......@@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ Teaching material used during the High Performance Computing session of the EMBL
Below are most of the commands used during the practical, so they can be copy/pasted, but I highly recommend typing along if you can.
## Login to the frontend node
```
ssh <username>@login.cluster.embl.de
```
## Clone this git repository
```
git clone https://git.embl.de/msmith/embl_hpc.git
```
## Identifying our computer
```
......@@ -20,35 +31,40 @@ hostname
srun hostname
```
## Exploring our example program
## Exploring our example program (don't run!)
```
cd $HOME/embl_swc_hpc/exercises
./hpc_example.py -t 10 -l 100
cd $HOME/embl_hpc/exercises
./hpc_example -t 10 -m 100
```
## Running example program on on the cluster
```
srun ./hpc_example.py -t 10 -l 100
srun ./hpc_example -t 10 -m 100
```
## Using our reserved training space
```
srun --­­reservation=training ./hpc_example -­t 10 -­m 100
```
## Running in the background
```
sbatch ./hpc_example.py -t 10 -l 100
sbatch ­­--reservation=training ./batch_job.sh
```
## Redirecting output
```
sbatch --output=output.txt ./hpc_example.py -t 20 -l 100
sbatch --output=output.txt --reservation=training ./batch_job.sh
```
## Creating a larger list
You will need to edit batch_jobs.sh to take arguments
```
sbatch --output=output.txt ./hpc_example.py -t 30 -l 5000000
sbatch --output=output.txt --reservation=training ./batch_job.sh 20 ???
```
## Displaying details of our cluster queue
......@@ -60,17 +76,51 @@ scontrol show partition
## Requesting more resources
```
sbatch --mem=250 \
--output=output.txt \
./hpc_example.py -t 30 -l 5000000
sbatch --mem=8200 --reservation=training ./batch_job.sh 30 8000
```
## Requesting a lot more resources
```
sbatch --mem=8000 \
--output=output.txt \
./hpc_example.py -t 120 -l 5000000
sbatch --mem=100G --reservation=training ./batch_job.sh 30 5000
```
## Cancel jobs
```
scancel <jobID>
scancel -u <username>
```
## Defining time limits
```
sbatch ­­--time=00­00:00:30 \
­­--reservation=training \
batch_job.sh 60 500
```
## Job efficiency statistics
```
seff <jobID>
```
## Emailing output
```
sbatch ­­--mail­user=<first.last>@embl.de \
­­--reservation=training \
./batch_job.sh 20 500
```
## Finding and using software
```
module avail
module spider samtools
module load BWA
```
## BWA example
```
nano bwa/bwa_batch.sh
sbatch ­­­­--reservation=training bwa/bwa_batch.sh
```
## Running interactive jobs
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