Argo Quality Control Comparison Project The goal of this project is to compare and contrast the real time Argo data quality control (QC) efforts of oceanographic forecasting ...
The Power Distribution Unit (PDU) The model number is AP7953. Technical data can be found on the American Power Conversion (APC) Web site, here. There are several ...
Cloud Computing activities ReSC staff did the initial trials of virtualisation software for use by ReSC and ESSC. VirtualBox and VMware ESXi were tested and both are ...
Technical Notes This is a page of links to notes about technical issues (e.g. guide to installing a piece of software). SimpleGuideToDeployingWebServices Guide ...
ReSC Projects GridAccessDataService (GADS) Contains links to GADS documentation and releases ReadingCampusGrid Information concerning the Reading Campus ...
Running data processing and analysis applications and utilities on the cluster This section covers the use of all interactive (as opposed to batch mode) data processing ...
Data storage and analysis server usage guidelines This is the section for all matters relating to the use of the cluster's data storage analysis servers. The "Data ...
AditSantokhee 16 Sep 2010 Introduction NetCDF 4 classic model files that use compression can be smaller than the equivalent netCDF 3 files, so downloads are quicker ...
This section is mainly aimed at system administrators but also contains some useful information for ordinary users. The Areca RAID controller in pegasus Upgrading ...
Pegasus has an Areca ARC 1160 RAID controller that can be accessed for monitoring and configuration in 3 ways. 1) Via a web browser running on gorgon or pegasus (or ...
Upgrading The Portland Group Inc. (PGI) compilers The cluster has an academic "Workstation" license for the PGI FORTRAN, C/C compilers. A "Workstation" license can ...
Data storage and transfer Avoiding I/O performance problems To reduce the impact of unresponsive filesystems, interactive work, including filesystem browsing and ...
Global Coastal Ocean Modelling System (GCOMS) This is a web based collaboration area for sharing information about the Global Coastal Ocean Modelling System (GCOMS ...
Setting up Postfix on the cluster This section concerns e mail communication between gorgon and the slave nodes relating to Sun Grid Engine (SGE) batch jobs. The ...
Getting Started Guide Sources of information The Data storage and analysis server usage guidelines section of the Cluster Users' wiki area contains information ...
Getting Started Guide The Unified Model (UM) and it's graphical user interface, the UMUI Troubleshooting rogue processes in SGE DanBretherton 05 Sep ...
The Unified Model (UM) and it's user interface (UMUI) Ways of cleaning up after the UM (by directory): um archive/job/ppfiles: Convert the files to pp, and zip ...
ESSC Cluster Users' Wiki Introduction We can use this Wiki for a variety of purposes. I have started the ball rolling by adding a few subsections. Please feel free ...
Managing relative priorities for users and jobs This is a brief description of how I have set up the scheduler policies and queue access controls in SGE. Please refer ...
Troubleshooting rogue processes SGE jobs sometimes leave begind rogue processes, which continue to run outside the control of SGE after the job has finished running ...
Correcting Myrinet mapper problems If you suspect that Myrinet problems are causing jobs to crash on a particular node, the first thing to do is to check that the ...
Running a memory test on a node Two popular memory testing utilities are installed on the cluster: and http://www.memtest.org/ Memtest86 . To run a memory test ...
Shutting down and restarting gorgon Gorgon, the master node, can be shut down and restarted using the normal Linux "shutdown" command. A restart can also be initiated ...
SGE execute daemon If the queue instances for a running slave node are shown as having state "u" or "au" in the output of qstat f , or the load avg ("load average ...
The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) The model number is APC Smart UPS 1500 RM. It is attached to the serial port on gorgon. The APC PowerChute Business Edition ...
AditSantokhee 06 Mar 2008 Introduction The communication between the Apache HTTP Server and Tomcat can be done via AJP Connectors . By default, both Apache ...
Grid Remote Execution (G Rex) is Java grid middleware that allows programs to be exposed as Web services on remote clusters. It has two components, a client and a ...
Cluster disk usage. Please describe what you are using / intending to use, so as to inform collective decisions about how disk space should be managed. Please think ...
Welcome! Welcome to the e Science Centre's Wiki site! This is a web based collaboration area for sharing information about all e Science issues, particularly those ...
SHAVER: Sharing and Visualizing large volume environmental data The SHAVER project is a 1 year http://www.nerc.ac.uk/using/schemes/ Knowledge Transfer project that ...
1. Develop and test a coupled physics ecosystem model capable of simulating the global coastal ocean on a ~10 km scale. The model system will encapsulates the essential ...
Inferno Inferno (http://code.google.com/p/inferno os/) is a system which can be hosted on many different architectures and can be used for distributed computing. ...
Inferno tutorial Requirements It is perfectly possible to work through this tutorial with a single computer (Windows NT/2000/XP, Linux, Solaris, nop MacOSX or nop ...
Styx/9P Libraries There are many implementations of the 9P) protocol, you find a list of implementations for various languages and systems here. See paper for a description ...
Coverages and their status in GeoAPI and GeoTools Introduction It is clear that there has been some confusion in the community with regard to the concept and use ...
GeoAPI is an OGC Working Group that is providing neutral, implementation only implementations of OGC/ISO standards using Java. GeoTools provides concrete implementations ...
Adapting nop TileCache to work as a Java servlet NOTE! This project is no longer active and has been superseded by GeoWebCache Summary This page describes briefly ...
G Rex Services for NEMO: qstat Lists jobs currently running on the remote cluster. Equivalent to 'qstat' on gorgon or pegasus. For an example see: See /data/gorgon ...
G Rex Services for NEMO The new services are called interp, nemo pwd, build nc, ls pwd and rm pwd. The "pwd" stands for "persistent working directory". Here are ...
G Rex Services for NEMO: rm pwd You might find this useful to delete unwanted files from the server if necessary. It takes a relative path as an argument but linux ...
G Rex Services for NEMO: ls pwd You might find these useful to see what the services are doing on the server and delete unwanted files if necessary. They both take ...
G Rex Services for NEMO: build nc There are some sample namelist files in : /data/gorgon/users/dab/UTILS/DIMGproc nnn/DIAGTMP. Most of my scripts involving build ...
Grex Services for NEMO: nemo pwd This works the same as normal nemo except that the dimgproc files are not brought back. Watch out for the sge options if you haven ...
G Rex Services for NEMO : interp Dan has adapted some of the interpolation job scripts to use grexrun instead of interp.x directly. They are in /home/users/dab ...
Running the NEMO ice ocean model using G Rex This area provides information on the G Rex services available to run NEMO using G Rex. GeneralInfoOnGrexServices ...
G Rex Users Wiki This Wiki topic is mainly for G Rex users at ESSC using G Rex services on remote clusters. RunningNemoWithGrex DanBretherton 25 Apr 2008 ...