[gate-users] duration of simulations

[Mutanga Theodore]

Hi there,
I consulted the script again and it says defaul wall time is 30mins if not
set. That puts me in a fix cos I don't know how long these can take. Can
it be guessed from activity or some other parameters ?
cheers
theo

> 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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