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Accelerator Plus User Guide
Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Running a Job
This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.

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Accelerator Plus Overview
Accelerator Plus is a high-performance hierarchical scheduler designed for distributed High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.
Accelerator Plus Tutorials
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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.
  - Submitted Job Information Display
    By default, nc run provides information when a job is submitted.
  - Scheduled Jobs
    Jobs that cannot be dispatched immediately due to a delay in acquiring the resources from the underlying scheduler. such as CPUs or software licenses, are put on the job queue.
- Submit Jobs to Accelerator Plus
- Modify Running Jobs
- Monitor the Workload
- 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.

Running a Job

This section summarizes how to submit and run a job.

Information about submitting jobs is covered in Submit Jobs to Accelerator Plus.

Note: To run a job, the working environment must be set. For information, refer to User Shell Setup.