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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Is this Northwestern’s Quest HPC or another one? I know at least a few of the people involved with Quest, and I wouldn’t have thought they’d be in dire need of coaching.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And to follow on with Davide’s point, this really sounds like a case for submitting multiple jobs with dependencies between them, as per [1, 2, 3].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[1] <a href="https://services.northwestern.edu/TDClient/30/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=1795">
https://services.northwestern.edu/TDClient/30/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=1795</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[2] <a href="https://bioinformaticsworkbook.org/Appendix/HPC/SLURM/submitting-dependency-jobs-using-slurm.html#gsc.tab=0">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">[3] <a href="https://slurm.schedmd.com/sbatch.html#OPT_dependency">
https://slurm.schedmd.com/sbatch.html#OPT_dependency</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 1:40 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Slurm User Community List <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [slurm-users] Reproducible irreproducible problem (timeout?)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">It is a University "supercomputer", not a national facility. Hence they are not that expert, which is why I am asking here. I am pretty certain that it is some
form of communication issue, but beyond that it is not clear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">If I get suggestions such as "why don't they look for ABC in XYZ" then I may persuade them to look at specifics. They will need the coaching, alas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 1:25 PM Gerhard Strangar <</span><a href="mailto:g.s@arcor.de"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">g.s@arcor.de</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Laurence Marks wrote:<br>
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> After some (irreproducible) time, often one of the three slow tasks hangs.<br>
> A symptom is that if I try and ssh into the main node of the subtask (which<br>
> is running 128 mpi on the 4 nodes) I get "Authentication failed".<br>
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How about asking an admin to check why it hangs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Emeritus Professor Laurence Marks (Laurie)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Györgyi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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