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In this course, System Administrators will learn the fundamentals of PBS Professional and how to optimize its features. 


Prerequisites:  

A basic knowledge of Linux/UNIX operation system is required.


Cost of the Course: 

€2500 per attendee


Topics Covered:

Overview Installation of PBS Professional 
  • Pre-Installation planning - PBS Server, PBS MOM – MOM nodes, MAMU Nodes, Compute Nodes / Parallel Nodes
  • Basic installation
  • PBS licenses
  • Post-Installation
  • PBS directory structure

PBS Server Site Configurations
  • Anatomy of PBS Professional
  • Directory of PBS installation
  • Directory of PBS Server configuration
  • Working with PBS daemons
  • Viewing PBS Server Configurations
  • Working with PBS Server attributes
  • Working with PBS Queue attributes
  • Working with PBS Vnode attributes
  • PBS Server logging information

PBS MOM Site Configurations
  • Concept of PBS MOM
  • Directory of PBS MOM configuration
  • Configuring PBS MOM attributes
  • PBS MOM logging information

Job Management
  • Different types of job
  • Submitting jobs 
  • Querying jobs
  • Assigning job attributes (quickly)
  • Requesting job resources (quickly)
  • Altering job requested resources
  • Job Dependencies
  • Reservations

Troubleshooting
  • Why my job is not running ?
  • Differentiating a PBS Pro issue with a System Issue
  • What information needs to be collected for debugging ?
  • What information needs to be collected when PBS daemon crash ?
  • Iterating through the support document.

Event

Product Suite
Cloud & HPC
Language
English
Region
Americas
Registration Link
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Delivery Method
Virtual Instructor-led
Seats available
4
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Training Manager
Donna Ableman
Details

Details

Online PBS Pro Professional Services Training is here once more!

Cost for training is $1995 per person. Please reach out to Donna Ableman dableman@altair.com with any questions or concerns.

The syllabus is as follows:

  • Job management/submission
  • Reservations
  • Using job arrays
  • Selected Advanced job management
    • Deleting jobs
    • Standard output/error files
    • File staging
    • Dependencies
  • Understanding PBS Pro
  • Installation of PBS Pro
    • Directory structure
  • Advanced job management
  • Qsub
  • Qstat
  • Qselect
  • Qalter
  • Error codes
  • PBS Administration
    • Job lifecycle
    • PBS status
    • PBS communication
    • PBS config file
  • PBS Server configuration
    • Qmgr
    • Server attributes
    • Queues
    • Vnodes
    • Job history
    • Server logs
  • PBS mom configuration
    • Config parameters
    • Enforcing limits
    • Creating virtual nodes
    • Mom logs
  • Custom resources
  • Hooks
  • PBS sched configuration
    • Sched cycles
    • Sched config file
    • Manually running a job
    • Sched logs
  • Sched policies
    • Job priority (formula)
    • Queue sorting
    • Job sorting
    • Vnode sorting
    • Peer scheduling
    • Preemption
    • fairshare
  • Other topics? (open to student preferences)

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