Richmond cluster status

[gilfoyle <ggilfoyl@mindspring.com>]

hi steven,

   i made the following changes to my scripts.

1. i had the script 'sleep' for 45 seconds after submitting a 
batch job with the following command.

    system("batch -f run_job");
    sleep 45;

2. i changed the way i copied the data files over from this perl command

   system("bpcp /data2/e5/root/4.232/$data_filename
$NODE:/scratch/gilfoyle/e5/$RUNNO/$data_filename");

to this one.

   system("bpsh $NODE cp /data2/e5/root/4.232/$data_filename
$NODE:/scratch/gilfoyle/e5/$RUNNO/$data_filename");

does this really make a difference??

i tested things in the following ways.

1. i ran my scripts on two data runs for a few events in each run. things
worked.

2. i ran them on 12 data runs for 250,000 events in each run. this is where
pscm1 hung
last week. THIS WORKED! I MAY BE ON THE VERGE OF BEING A HAPPY GUY.

3. i ran my scripts on 50 data runs for 250,000 events in each run. this worked!

4. i ran my scripts on 120 data runs for all the events in each run. this will
take
many hours, but it looks good so far.

5. went to chicago for thanksgiving.

i'll be in touch next week.


jerry

-- 
Dr. Gerard P. Gilfoyle
Physics Department                e-mail: ggilfoyl@richmond.edu
University of Richmond, VA 23173  phone:  804-289-8255
USA                               fax:    804-289-8482