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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.
Submit Jobs
Submit Jobs from the Browser
This section shows an example of using a web browser to submit jobs.

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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
    - Submit Jobs with CLI Commands
      This chapter provides examples of submitting jobs using CLI (command line interface) commands.
    - Submit a Single Job
    - Submit Multiple Jobs
      When a list of similar jobs is to be submitted, it is much more efficient to submit them all at once.
    - Submit Jobs from the Browser
      This section shows an example of using a web browser to submit jobs.
  - View 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.
Altair Accelerator Administrator Guide
Configure and manage the use of Accelerator after it is installed.

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Submit Jobs from the Browser

This section shows an example of using a web browser to submit jobs.

For information about using the command line interface to submit jobs, refer to Submit Jobs with CLI Commands.

An example script is located in $VOVDIR/etc/cgi/submit.cgi, which can be modified as needed. The script is invoked with the URL http://HOST:PORT/cgi/submit.cgi, which is usually http://nc-host:6271/cgi/submit.cgi. (6271 is the default port; however, the port that is actually used can be different.)

Note: Placing the file in $VOVDIR/etc/cgi will make it available to all servers running on that Altair Accelerator software hierarchy. To restrict access to Accelerator, create a cgi subdirectory under your Accelerator directory vnc.swd, and place the submit.cgi script there. Remember to make the script executable.

submit.cgi is setup for running very basic scripts. This script is intended as an introduction to Accelerator.

The following is the output of the example script:

Figure 1.