2025.1.2
This guide is written for the Accelerator Plus system administrator who needs to configure and manage one or more Accelerator Plus instances.
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Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Currently there are no Accelerator Plus tutorials available.
The command wxmgr is identical to ncmgr.
Accelerator Plus has added the capability to use PBS Professional as its base scheduler. For the 2019.01 release, jobs can be submitted through Accelerator Plus and run on a PBS complex.
Some key functionality in Accelerator Plus is provided by external daemons.
This section describes the theory of the operation of Accelerator Plus on Accelerator and how to address problems should they occur.
In order to successfully run jobs under Accelerator Plus, submitting to Accelerator, some configuration must be done up front.
Direct Drive provides a method to reduce latency of job start times and improved scaling as more base queues are added.
Like all vovservers, access to Accelerator Plus can be controlled by editing the security file wx.swd/security.tcl.
In Accelerator Plus, each job goes through a number of states until completion.
The job submission behavior of Accelerator Plus or Accelerator Plus can be controlled by the file vnc_policy.tcl, which resides in the vovserver configuration directory.
Many aspects of Accelerator Plus behavior can be customized.
The wx run command has built-in default features that include checking the validity of the run directory, enabling job profiling, etc. This section describes how the Accelerator Plus administrator can use the file $VOVDIR/local/vncrun.config.tcl to modify some defaults. This file does not exist by default; it must be created when needed.
This section describes how the Accelerator Plus administrator can use the file $VOVDIR/local/vnclist.config.tcl to modify some defaults for the wx list command. This file does not exist by default; it must be created when needed.
Some features of the Accelerator Plus web interface can be configured by the administrator. Configuration for these items is performed in the vnc.swd/config/web.cfg file.
When interfacing to Accelerator, a minimal (zero) configuration for Accelerator Plus is recommended.
Altair Accelerator includes a subsystem for managing computing resources. This allows the design team to factor in various constraints regarding hardware and software resources, as well as site policy constraints.
This section provides recommendations to obtain the maximum performance from Accelerator Plus.
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