The cluster now has a queuing system. Set-up was less-than-trivial.

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I started setting up the hardware at around 1600h yesterday.
I finished setting up the underlying software today at around 1900h today.
Not too shabby, eh? According to wwtop:

Cluster totals: 20 nodes, 40 cpus, 96200 MHz, 39.18 GB mem

Here’s a snapshot of the front of the status page:

What an ordeal. Now we have to start compiling PETSC [...]

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When moving to JHU, we took our 20 cluster nodes which are Evolocity II units from Linux Networx. They were part of a larger cluster at Tulane’s Center for Computational Science. As such, we didn’t need to worry about them — the CCS sysadmin took care of them.
Now that they are here at JHU, they [...]

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