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share=ui flag in Reprise(TM) type licenses for Accelerator products
Reprise(TM) type licensing is only available for Accelerator products before the 2023.1.1 release. With the share=ui attribute in the license file, sometimes rlmstat reports more license handles checked out than what rlmstat itself reports as the sum of all license handles. This is because license handles with the same…
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Disable IPv6 for vovnginxd
When does this page apply? The steps described on this page only apply to projects where nginx is used as a webprovider. For versions prior to 2021, there is no other webprovider than nginx. In versions 2021 and above you can check this via $ vovservermgr config | grep webprovider webprovider "nginx" If the internal…
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Systemd Returns 217/USER Error on System Boot when Using Directory Based Users
Summary: When using the systemd unit examples in $SWD/etc/boot and service accounts that run Altair products are not local accounts in /etc/passwd (LDAP, NIS, AD, etc.), applications may not start on boot. The same systemd unit file will run successfully after the system is booted. This problem could affect more than just…
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Altair Accelerator Supported Platforms
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 *…
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Download Accelerator Software
Download Accelerator software by clicking here.
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Altair Accelerator™ Plus Demo
The Plus package of Accelerator (Accelerator Plus) also includes a hierarchical scheduler architected to off-load the base scheduler, enabling greater throughput, better license and resource utilization, and more flexible scheduler usage models.
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VOV: How do I increase tool verbosity?
Many commands offer the option -v to increase the verbosity. Some message require a higher verbosity level to be printed. The higher level can be invoked by specifying '-v' multiple times. For example: nc run -v -v -v <command> Another way to change the overall verbosity of a tool is to add the corresponding 'config.tcl'…
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VOV: Find and read journal files
You can read a journal file to analyze and understand the precursors that caused a file or job to be in a certain state. The vovserver saves several kinds of files to record its activity. It's main log file is in .swd/logs/server* (list by date and choose the most recent). A new version of this log is created each time…
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VOV: Clear out old vovprojects
When you create a new NetworkComputer queue or a new FlowTracer project, each time, the system creates a registry entry and directory in the SWD. At a certain point, you may have hundreds of these. While these projects do not affect performance, they can clutter things up and take up much needed space. It's best to do some…
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VOV: What is the difference between an owner and an admin?
When first using Runtime software, you will see the terms owner and admin used relative to VOV projects. The owner of a vov-project is the user account that created it using the vovproject command, or one of the product-specific management commands, like ncmgr and lmmgr. At the time a vov-project is created, its…
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VOV: Resolve the Error "exec: vtclsh: not found"
If you see the error, "exec: vtclsh: not found" while attempting to run a script from within a cron job, it is likely because the PATH is not properly set in the cron job. See the following example: /path-to-rtda/version/hostOS/scripts/ftlm_lmproject: line 16: exec: vtclsh: not found A regular cron job has a very…
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VOV: Do I need to restart after changing security.tcl?
After changing the security settings by updating the security.tcl file, you do not need to stop and start the vovserver to pick up the new settings. New settings are picked up by vovproject reread, vovproject sanity or by running 'sanity' from the GUI.
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Failed subcommand run in 2016.09u9 (NetworkComputer)
In the Runtime 2016.09u9 release, job submitters may receive a message like: equiv 08/22/2017 12:09:29: USER ERROR: Failed subcommand run: can't read "some-variable-name: no such variable This happens if your NetworkComputer setup uses a vnc_policy.tcl file that depends on variables declared in the file to be global, and…
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VOV: What is the unit of cputime for Runtime Tools?
Our tools measure the cputime in millisecs. Please note that for running jobs the cputime is updated in certain intervals only. An accurate value for the entire job is computed after a job has completed.
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VOV: How does Runtime licensing work?
Runtime supports two kinds of licensing: * Floating licenses provided by the Reprise License Manager (RLM), which is similar to FLEXlm. * Runtime keyfile licenses, which are node-locked and made for a specific hostid, Runtime product and port number. For the Reprise License Manager, we make the license file with the host…
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VOV: Why does the vovproject list show no projects?
When you run the vovproject list subcommand, sometimes it will not show any projects even though they may exist. Often the reason for this is that vovproject list only shows the projects created by the account running the command. If the project was created and is owned by a different user, you can get a list of projects…
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VOV: Where do I find documentation?
You can find documentation in several places, through your browser, in your local RTDA software installation and in PDF documentation at ttps://support.rtda.com You can download the PDF documentation from the Support area of the RTDA website: https://www.runtimeinc.com. You may also download the platform-independent…
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VOV: What is a vovproject?
When first starting to use Runtime software, you will notice many references to a project or vovproject. A vovproject is a collection of jobs and their associated files, managed by a vovserver process. A project may have vovslaves attached to run jobs for the project, or those jobs may be sent to a separate batch system…
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VOV: what is a project?
Each design project is associated with one vovserver. The vovserver is started at the beginning of the project and normally runs until the project completes. Each project goes through a life cycle. It is first created and then enabled in your shell. At that point, the user can build or load pre-defined flows using Linux…
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VOV: Change the Server Working Dir (SWD) in running clients/slaves
To change the SWD, perform the following steps: * On the vovserver host, use the current directory path: % vovserverdir -m * Run the following command: # vtk_swd_set <symbolic> <path> Symbolic reflects the vovserver Host Operating System (Unix or windows). For example: vtk_swd_set unix /path/to/server/working/directory/vnc…
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VOV: About renaming a project
A vovproject is a collection of jobs and files managed by a given vovserver process. The command-line utility vovproject is used to manage VOV projects, and is used also from within the lmmgr and ncmgr commands that are used to manage LicenseMonitor and NetworkComputer. Runtime software has a notion of ownership that is…
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VOV: How to manage vovserver when there are "too many clients in the system"
If you receive the message: "too many clients in the system" when trying to execute Runtime commands, your vovserver has exhausted its file descriptors. Particularly for NC, it is important to check the number of available descriptors before answering yes to the "ok-to-start" prompt of the ncmgr command. The vovserver…
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PBS Works Product Lifecycle Policy
Table of Contents: Overview Terminology The PBS Works Product Life Cycle General Availability Phase Limited Support Phase Extended Support Phase End of Support Phase Release Cadence Illustration Support Obligations by Phase Public Customer Notifications Links and References Overview This policy document describes life…
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Upgrade Linux from v2016 to v2019
https://aap-files.pbsworks.com/files/Downloads/General_Availability/2017/2017.12u3 These are the steps you have follow for the installation: Download .tar files common.tar, linux64.tar +get a shell as the account that should own the installation + Untar the files into a temporary directory You may wish to keep the .tar…
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CGI scripts fail when vovserver seems to have the wrong working directory
Very rarely, vovserver will seem to have an incorrect notion of its current working directory. This manfests itself as errors from some CGI scripts. The normal working directory for vovserver is the parent of the <project>.swd; for example, when accepting the default for NC, this might be: $VOVDIR/../../vnc On Linux, you…