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Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
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2024.1.1

Altair Accelerator Plus

What's New
View new features for Accelerator Plus 2024.1.1.
Accelerator Plus Overview
Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Accelerator Plus Tutorials
Currently there are no Accelerator Plus tutorials available.
Accelerator Plus User Guide
Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
- Use Accelerator Plus Help
  Accelerator Plus documentation is available in HTML and PDF format.
- Accelerator Plus Quick Start
  Accelerator Plus has two main commands, wx and wxmgr.
- Command Line Interface
- User Shell Setup
  To set up your user shell with Accelerator Plus 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 to Accelerator Plus
- Modify Running Jobs
- Monitor the Workload
  - Get Detailed Information about a Job
    The command wx displays information about a job.
  - Job Status
    In Accelerator Plus, each job goes through a number of states until completion.
  - 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.
  - Job Profiling
    When job profiling is activated, Accelerator Plus tracks and plots performance statistics over the time the job is running.
  - List Jobs
    To show the status of jobs recently submitted, use wx list.
  - Job Summary
    The command wx summary is used to show a short summary of jobs in the system.
  - Invoke the GUI
    Job execution can be monitored with wx gui.
  - Icons
    All icons provide descriptions that you can find by hovering over the icon.
  - Show the Hosts/Taskers
    The command wx hosts shows the list of the hardware resources currently connected to an instance of Accelerator. These hardware resources are called "taskers" in Accelerator Plus.
  - Monitor Jobs, Taskers and Resources
    The activity of Accelerator Plus can be monitored with a dialog.
- Manage Jobs
  Accelerator Plus provides several commands of job controls, including wait, stop, cleaning and debugging.
- Debug Jobs without Running Accelerator Plus
  On occasion, jobs that run successfully outside of Accelerator Plus fail when run through Accelerator Plus. 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.
- LSF Emulation
  This document is intended for those who have been using the Platform LSF batch system and are now moving to using Accelerator Plus on top of the LSF batch system.
Accelerator Plus Administrator Guide
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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Altair Accelerator Plus

2024.1.1

Home
Accelerator Plus User Guide
Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Monitor the Workload

What's New
Accelerator Plus Overview
Accelerator Plus Tutorials
Accelerator Plus User Guide
Accelerator Plus Administrator Guide

Index

Monitor the Workload

Get Detailed Information about a Job
The command wx displays information about a job.
Job Status
In Accelerator Plus, each job goes through a number of states until completion.
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.
Job Profiling
When job profiling is activated, Accelerator Plus tracks and plots performance statistics over the time the job is running.
List Jobs
To show the status of jobs recently submitted, use wx list.
Job Summary
The command wx summary is used to show a short summary of jobs in the system.
Invoke the GUI
Job execution can be monitored with wx gui.
Icons
All icons provide descriptions that you can find by hovering over the icon.
Show the Hosts/Taskers
The command wx hosts shows the list of the hardware resources currently connected to an instance of Accelerator. These hardware resources are called "taskers" in Accelerator Plus.
Monitor Jobs, Taskers and Resources
The activity of Accelerator Plus can be monitored with a dialog.

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