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Altair Accelerator Tutorials
Discover Altair Accelerator functionality with interactive tutorials.
Altair Accelerator Administrator Tutorials
In the following tutorial, you will experiment with most issues that an Accelerator administrator will need to address, including starting/stopping the server, configuring FairShare, resources, taskers and environments.
Browser-based Setup

What's New
View new features for Altair Accelerator 2025.1.0.
Install the Software
Read through the Installation Guide to get your software up and running.
Altair Accelerator Tutorials
Discover Altair Accelerator functionality with interactive tutorials.
- Altair Accelerator User Tutorials
  In the following User Tutorials, you will experiment with Accelerator on most topics that a user would be most interested in, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, analyzing and solving common problems, etc.
- Altair Accelerator Administrator Tutorials
  In the following tutorial, you will experiment with most issues that an Accelerator administrator will need to address, including starting/stopping the server, configuring FairShare, resources, taskers and environments.
  - Start a Test Queue
  - Start/Stop Accelerator
  - Browser-based Setup
  - Configure Policy - FairShare and Other Parameters
  - Advanced Policy Configuration
  - Configure Resources
  - Configure Security
    Accelerator has 4 privilege levels: READONLY, USER, LEADER, ADMIN.
  - Configure Taskers
    The file taskers.tcl describes the vovtaskers for Accelerator.
  - Configure an Environment
  - Logical Names (Equivalences)
  - Resource Management
  - Upgrade Accelerator
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Browser-based Setup

Accelerator provides a simplified user-friendly browser-based setup, which is especially useful for new users. To use this browser-base setup page, please first make sure Accelerator is running.

Find the URL

First find the Accelerator URL, using vovbrowser or vsi:

% nc cmd vovbrowser
http://yourhost:6295/project
% nc cmd vsi
(more detailed output, including the Accelerator vovserver URL)

The setup script is available at the URL /cgi/setup.cgi (for example, in this case, it is http://alpaca:6295/cgi/setup.cgi).

Setup Using the Web Page

Follow the instructions on the web page to finish the basic setup.
On the Taskers setup page, try to add at least one tasker for each type (Server, Workstation, Offhours).
View the tasker statuses at URL /taskers.
Try out some test jobs.

Note: You need a working remote-shell setup to start non-local vovtaskers for this step.