patas.ling.washington.edu Condor Cluster

What is it?

Condor is a batch-oriented clustering system. Jobs are submitted into a job queue, matched with an available compute node, and run on that node.

Equipment for the patas cluster is partially funded by the Student Technology Fee.

How do I get an account?

If you do not yet have a Computational Linguistics account, fill out our online account request form. You must have a valid UW NetID.

How do I access the cluster?

Open an SSH connection to patas.ling.washington.edu port 22 or dryas.ling.washington.edu port 22. See HowToAccessPatas for more information.

How do I use Condor to run my jobs?

Visit the HowToUseCondor Wiki page for a quick introduction. You may also want to view the PDF presentation I wrote for orientation.

Software notes

• TroubleshootingCondor - Troubleshooting Condor job problems.
• BigMemoryCondor - Tips for running jobs that need more than 2 GB of RAM.
• PatasFileSystems - Overview of shared filesystems in the cluster.
• PatasShebangLines - Script headers for installed interpreters.
• Using C# on Patas
• XmingGotchas - Problems with running Emacs (and some other apps) using the Windows X server Xming
• Fixing backspace/delete problems in Emacs (will take you to an external site)
• Intro to UNIX file permissions (will take you to an external site)
• Locale settings and character encodings
• DataProtection - What we do to protect data stored on our systems against loss, and what users need to do to protect their own data.
• DiskQuotas

Linguistics software

A listing of linguistics software on Patas can be found in the CompLing database.

Patas? What's that?

Patas monkeys are slender, ground-dwelling primates found in central Africa. They can run faster than any other primate, reaching speeds of up to 55 km/hr.

-- brodbd - 06 Jan 2010