Queueing System

Minerva uses a PBS system to schedule and run jobs and this requires a .pbs file to contain the relevant information (wall time, memory required etc.) Once you're ready to run your job you can use the command qsub to submit the job to the queue. E.g.

qsub que.pbs

Will submit the job detailed in que.pbs to the queueing system. You can check the status of your job by using qstat. E.g.

qstat

This will list all jobs on the system. You can filter using a number of tags. For example,

qstat -u ccspap

will only show jobs submitted by ccspap. There are a number of queues for different purposes. One useful queue is the development queue (name=devel) which allows shorter/quicker jobs to be run. This is useful if a quick sanity check is required or you just want to run a few timesteps. It can be accessed using the -q option with the qsub command. E.g.

qstat -q devel que.pbs

submits the job detailed in que.pbs to the devel(opment) queue.