Altair PBS Professional for Managing Compute Workload

Managing and Using PBS Professional

This is an introductory course for PBS Professional. It presents the fundamentals for using PBS Professional and familiarizes students with its many features. The course also covers installing, configuring, managing and trouble-shooting PBS Professional.

Class Format

• 3 days (The start time is 9:00 AM and end time is 5:00 PM)
  
• Instructor led
  
• Hands-on exercises, one student to a computer

Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of Linux/UNIX operation system is required.

Topics

• Understanding PBS Professional
  
  • What is PBS Professional
    
  • PBS GridWorks Web Site
    
  • PBS GridWorks Documentation
    
  • Currently Supported Systems
    
  • Workload Management Components
  
  
• Installation of PBS Professional
  
  • Pre-Installation planning
    
  • Basic installation
    
  • PBS licenses
    
  • Post-Installation
    
  • PBS directory structure
  
  
• Job Management
  
  • Different types of job
    
  • Submitting jobs
    
  • Querying jobs
    
  • Assigning job attributes
    
  • Requesting job resources
    
  • Altering job requested resources
    
  • Job Dependencies
    
  • Advance Reservations
  
  
• Using Job Arrays
  
  • Concept of Job Arrays
    
  • Submitting Job Arrays
    
  • Querying Job Arrays
  
  
• Multiprocessor Jobs
  
  • What is MPI?
    
  • MPI integration
    
  • Submitting MPI jobs
  
  
• PBS Server Site Configurations
  
  • Anatomy of PBS Professional
    
  • Directory of PBS installation
    
  • Directory of PBS Server configuration
    
  • Working with PBS daemons
    
  • Viewing PBS Server Configurations
    
  • Working with PBS Server attributes
    
  • Working with PBS Queue attributes
    
  • Working with PBS Vnode attributes
    
  • PBS Server logging information
  
  
• PBS MOM Site Configurations
  
  • Concept of PBS MOM
    
  • Directory of PBS MOM configuration
    
  • Configuring PBS MOM attributes
    
  • PBS MOM logging information
  
  
• PBS Scheduling Site Configurations
  
  • Concept of PBS Scheduler
    
  • Directory of PBS Scheduler configuration
    
  • Standard behavior of PBS Scheduler
    
  • PBS Scheduler logging information
    
  • Configuring various local scheduling policies
  
  
• Scheduling Custom Resources
  
  • Concept of Custom Resources
    
  • Understanding various types of custom resources
  
  
• Site Specific Configurations
  
  • PBS Redundancy and Failover
    
  • Workstation Cycle Harvesting
    
  • Prologue and Epilogues custom scripts
    
  • PBS Accounting Records
    
  • Uninstalling PBS Professional
  
  
• Trouble Shooting
  
  • Job exit codes
    
  • Various trouble shooting assistance

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