[gate-users] duration of simulations

[Corinne J Groiselle]

Do you really have to specify the wall time?

I am using PBSpro on our cluster and I never specify it! The only PBS 
parameters I give are:
#PBS -mae
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=1
#PBS -q workq

Corinne

Mutanga Theodore wrote:

>Greetings again,
>
>I have desinged the GE DISCOVERY scanner using the ecat system and I am
>running a simulation which is just a modification of Jan S.  Voxelized
>Phantom macro, but with my scanner disgn. I submitted the job to the
>cluster but before that I had to specify the wall time requested . i.e
>duration for the simulation. this means that somehow I have to know the
>length of a simulation in advance ?
>Is it possible to guess somehow the lenght of a simulation using the time
>slices ?
>
>I took a wild guess for my simulation which was two frames of 1s each and
>I set the wall time to 24 hours , but its 20 hours now and its still
>running , the cluster nodes are 2Ghz each.
>
>can someone shed some light on this ?
>
>Cheers
>Theo
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