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For a downloadable list of Supported Platforms, please see the attached document. Altair Accelerator Package – Windows Platform1 2 2017.12 2019.01 2021.1 2021.2 Windows 7 Windows 8/8.1 Windows 10 Windows Server 2008/R2 Windows Server 2012/R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 *…
The H state means that though there are enough free resources available for the jobs, the job is not being scheduled to run. It is not always an erroneous state. Sometimes you may also want to put your job in H state using the "qhold" command. This "USER HOLD" can be released using the qrls command as below: qrls <Job id>…
In PBS Pro, the W state job is an error state which occurs when the job input files don't get transferred to the compute node before actually running the job. The job is actually scheduled onto a node and would be seen in R state but before actually starting the job process execution on the compute node, it needs to copy…
This article is supplemental information for OpenMPI integration with PBS Professional Server and execution hosts. The steps in this article were tested using PBS Professional 2020.1.1 , however they should work for any versions 2020 or greater. These steps were also tested on a CentOS 8 virtual machine, but should work on…
In this article you will learn how to reset single-user database passwords and restore access to the existing database. The VOV Postgres database is used with Monitor and Accelerator, and uses three roles (user accounts) in normal operation: * rtdausr -- read-only queries * rtdamgr -- read-write queries that modify the…
Altair® Grid Engine® version 8.7.0 offers performance enhancements including throughput and scalability updates and flexible resource requests for hybrid, parallel jobs. These performance improvements help Altair Grid Engine users compete in even the most competitive HPC verticals such as FinTech. Altair Grid Engine 8.7.0…
The Altair® Accelerator™ 2021.2.0 release offers a number of usability and robustness advancements. Included are new tools for visualizing and acting on key data provided by the scheduler, such as the addition of Tasker (execution host) metrics in the Streaming Data Service and updates to the Accelerator dashboard…
The new Altair® Accelerator™ web interface allows users and administrators to view important information about the scheduler function and cluster loading. Available in versions 2021.1.0 and later, the Accelerator web interface (dashboard) is auto-refreshing and provides details on queued and running jobs, status of…
Altair® Accelerator™(2021.1.0 release) introduced the Streaming Data Service (SDS). This is a Kafka-compliant data stream that allows Accelerator to be connected directly to a Kafka message broker. This first release published real-time scheduler metrics and enables remote monitoring of the Accelerator main dispatch loop.…
This article describes how to create a wrapper to pre-process lmstat output before the usage data is parsed by the Altair®Monitor™ parser. Usage Scenario #1: When a user has multiple usernames from different NIS domains (i.e., Unix and Windows), the license usage by this user is logged under multiple usernames, which is…
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