Operational Restrictions
To be able to use the HT-Cluster one has:
to have an IMT account and an AFS home
(AFS home can be activated by using the
"IMT Benutzerverwaltung"
).
to be member of a special group
Send an email to your local support to apply for using the HT-cluster.
For example people working in the computer science faculty send an email to irb-support(at)upb.de.
Only sequential jobs are possible
There are no shared file systems:
Frontend local home is created automatically at first login
Worker local homes are created via cron (5m interval)
Worker local /opt/pc2 is updated via rsync (pull)
“Old”
data will be removed automatically from worker nodes
“Old”
data (4 weeks) will be removed automatically from frontend
PC2 does not
provide any application support
install software X for user Y