Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Useful NIMROD Pages

NIMROD software allows scheduling of distributed jobs across multiple grid resources around the world. Unfortunately its documentation is a bit all over the place.

Here are the main nimrod commands:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~nimrod/nimrodg/papiman.html

If your nimrod has enFuzion on it, you can run specific commands for it here

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cluster/enFuzion/api.htm

Run 'nimrod enfapi [command parameters]' at the command line

Plan files are an important part of NIMROD's job scheduling. Here are the basics:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~nimrod/nimrodg/ng.html

And here are a set of examples of plan files:

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~nimrod/nimrodportal/manual/planfileexamples.shtml

Hopefully this clears up some of the mess.

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