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PDSF

PDSF is a networked distributed computing cluster designed primarily to meet the detector simulation and data analysis requirements of physics, astrophysics and nuclear science collaborations.  For more details see About PDSF.  Click on the SGE graphs below to see larger versions and longer term graphs and see also the graphs of Network Activity.

Running SGE JobsPending SGE Jobs
24 hour rolling usage graph Rolling 24 Pending Jobs by Group

About

Find out more about PDSF, including a general overview, and information about research groups and staff... Read More »

Getting Started

Guidance on obtaining a new user account, access, passwords, and setup files... Read More »

Hardware Configuration

Provides guidance on hardware configurations, including: login, compute, grid and transfer nodes, and working with particular file systems. Read More »

Using the SGE Batch System

A users guide to submitting jobs, I/O resources, working with batch jobs, and managing your jobs. Read More »

Performance and Optimization

Provides recommendations on best practices for optimizing your system and jobs Read More »

Software and Tools

These softwares and tools provide resources needed to create the Linux environment, checking quotas, accelerate Remote X performance, Print, Email, setup Andrew File System, and host webpages. Read More »

Announcements and Meetings

Visit these pages to see current events from the blog, scheduled meetings, as well as provides mailing lists. Read More »

Cluster Statistics

This section includes pages about Batch Summaries, Ganglia, Usage Summaries, Utilization Graphs, HPSS statistics, and Network Activity. Read More »

Getting help

Whether you've lost your password, are having trouble compiling or running an application or are a new user seeking advice, we can help, see these pages for more... Read More »

FAQ

PDSF Group Pages

The PDSF group pages are intended to be a place to document group-specific information.  Users are encouraged to use the Group Pages Update Request Form to contribute any material specific to your experiment that you'd like to have on these… Read More »

Using Carver for PDSF jobs

This page is for PDSF users who wish to try running on carver. Read More »

PDSF Completed Jobs

This is a Beta site, please send questions and comments to consult@nersc.gov. Read More »