PMACS

A Penn cluster. Uses bsub.

Connecting to PMACS

Don’t need to connect via vpn

$ ssh -Y [username]@scisub.pmacs.upenn.edu #SSH only. No sftp. No outbound access. Can submit or check jobs.
$ ssh -Y [username]@sciget.pmacs.upenn.edu #SSH, but has outbound access to use git, svn, wget, et cetera to download data. Can *not* submit or check jobs.

Using the batch system

PMACS uses IBM’s Load Sharing Facility (LSF) to submit and monitor jobs. This is very different from SGE used on CUBIC. The biggest differences are you will use bsub to submit jobs and bjobs to monitor jobs instead of SGE’s qsub to submit jobs and qstat to monitor jobs.

The documentation for LSF can be found here.

Submitting tickets

https://helpdesk.pmacs.upenn.edu/