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Altair Accelerator User Guide
Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.
Running a Job
This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.
View Job Progress and Results
Get Job Information
The nc info command gives information about a job.

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Altair Accelerator User Guide
Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.
- Use Accelerator Help
  Accelerator documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
- Accelerator Quick Start
  Accelerator has two main commands, nc and ncmgr.
- Command Line Interface
- Quick Reference
- User Shell Setup
  To set up your user shell with Accelerator you need to know where the Altair Accelerator software has been installed.
- Running a Job
  This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.
  - Submit Jobs
  - View Job Progress and Results
    - Submitted Job Information Display
      By default, nc run provides information when a job is submitted.
    - Get Job Information
      The nc info command gives information about a job.
    - Get Detailed Information about a Job
      The command nc displays information about a job.
    - Graphical View of Job Progress and Results
  - Manage Jobs
    Accelerator provides several commands of job controls, including wait, stop, cleaning and debugging.
  - Rerun Jobs
    The nc rerun command initiates scheduling and executing jobs that are already in the server database.
- Job Management
- Schedule Job Submission
- Modify Running Jobs
- FairShare Groups
- Job Placement Policies
- Clean Up Log Files
  All log files are normally stored under the subdirectory ./vnc_logs. To remove all obsolete log files in the current working directory, use the nc clean command.
- Debug Jobs without Running Accelerator
  On occasion, jobs that run successfully outside of Accelerator fail when run through Accelerator. When this occurs, mostly likely the setups are not the same: the environment, inputs or other parameters may be different, a misconfiguration or there is a problem with NFS.
- Job Runtime - Monitor and Profile
  When a job is running through a vovtasker, the tasker automatically monitors RAM and CPU utilization of the job, including all of its children.
- Monitor the Workload
- Statistical Information about Resources and Jobs
  Reports provide statistical information about all the jobs that are run during a specified time and the usage of the resources that run jobs. The resources include CPU time, licenses, memory and more.
- Environment Control
  Setting the environment is critical for correct job execution. Accelerator provides two methods to control the execution environment.
- Job Resources
  Some jobs may require a specific platform or operating system (OS) to run. As Accelerator automatically lists platform/OS as a tasker resources, the task of finding the right host to execute a job is easy: specify the required platform/OS as part of the job resource requirements.
- Advanced Information
- Frequently Asked Questions and Troubleshooting Tips
- Deprecated Commands
  This section lists the recently deprecated and obsoleted Accelerator commands and options, and the corresponding current commands and options.
- LSF Emulation
  This document is intended for those who have been using the Platform LSF batch system and are now moving over to the Accelerator system.
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Get Job Information

The nc info command gives information about a job.

When executed without an option, the subcommand info displays the start time, completion time, duration, resources, priority, and exit status.


nc: Usage Message
NC INFO:
    Get information about a specific job or list of jobs.

USAGE:
    % nc info [options] <jobId> ...

OPTIONS:
    -c               -- Show tasker compatibility table
                        (which tasker can run a job).
    -h               -- Help usage message.
    -v               -- Increase verbosity.
    -l               -- Show the log file (shows all outputs).
    -ioprofile       -- Show job I/O profiling summary statistics for jobs
                        that have been completed. The job must have been 
                        submitted with the -ioprofile option.
    -e               -- Show the environment name, or contents if a snapshot.
    -tc              -- Show tasker compatibility in normal output.
    -dep             -- Show job dependencies.
    -J   <jobname>   -- Show the jobs with given name.
                        (DO NOT USE IN SCRIPTS!)

NOTE:  'nc info -J JOBNAME'  is more expensive than 'nc info JOBID'
       We strongly recommend you never use nc info -J ... in scripts.
       Reason: job names are not unique and are not hashed.  Job Ids are unique.


EXAMPLES:
    % nc info 00123456
          -- Show info about specific job.
    % nc info !
          -- Show info about most recent job in current dir.
    % nc info -l 12345
          -- Show log file(s) of job.
    % nc info -J MyJob
          -- Show info about all jobs called "MyJob".
    % nc info -tc 0012345
          -- If job is Scheduled, also show the summary
             of tasker compatibility.