Altair Accelerator 2024.1.0
Configure and manage the use of Accelerator after it is installed.
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Basic tasks in Accelerator, including submitting jobs, tracking job information, and analyzing and solving common problems.
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Accelerator has two main commands, nc and ncmgr.
vovserver configuration parameter values may be changed in a running vovserver using the CLI, or prior to the starting the server via the policy.tcl file. An administator can configure the parameters in the running vovserver using the vovservermgr command or the vtk_server_config procedure.
A tasker is a VOV client that provides computing resources, specifically CPU cycles, to the vovserver.
A normal vovtasker has the privileges and limitations of the account in which it runs. When a normal vovtasker executes a command, the effect is the same as when the vovtasker's owner runs the command.
The taskers.tcl file describes the taskers for a project.
There are many options that can be used with vtk_tasker_define and vtk_tasker_set_default.
A tasker is characterized by several attributes. These attributes are controllable by means of the command line arguments to the vovtasker binary as well as by means of the procedure vtk_tasker_define in the taskers.tcl configuration file for a VOV project.
A tasker list is a named, ordered list of taskers. Tasker lists can be used to enhance performance or restrict usage.
The resources of a tasker include SLOTS, SLOTSTOTAL, CORES and CORESTOTAL.
By default, the vovtasker does not perform many health checks. If the jobs can be executed successfully, that is normally enough of a check.
For cases where the vovtaskers are started by submitting the binary to a separate batch queue system such as LSF or SGE, the system administrator may decide to use vovagent, which is a special copy of the vovtasker binary.
vovagent
vovtasker
vovtasker continuously logs 1 minute, 5 minute and 10 minute load averages of the machine where the tasker is running. Tasker load reports are available on the Tasker Load page.
Time-variant taskers resources can be configured using Tcl. Any procedure can be defined in the namespace VovResources and then used to compute the resource list.
VovResources
vovtaskers also support SGE style load sensors. Use option -L in vovtasker/vovtaskerroot to define the command line for the load sensor.
It is a recommended best practice to employ change control on your project configuration files.
Once the Accelerator vovserver has been started, you can view and manage it using your web browser.
To regulate access to Accelerator, the security file vnc.swd/security.tcl must be edited. To deploy the changes after editing the file, Accelerator must be reset.
With the command vovautostart, on vovserver startup, scripts can be specified to execute automatically.
With the command vovautostop, on vovserver shutdown, scripts can be specified to execute automatically.
You may wish to run a few simple jobs to confirm that the system is running properly.
VOV and the jobs it runs depend on external resources such as available licenses, RAM, swap, tmp and disk space, which may become exhausted, damaged or otherwise unavailable. When users are subject to disk quotas, writes may fail when the disk is not completely full.
If a server crashes suddenly, VOV has the capability to start a replacement server on a pre-selected host. This capability requires that the pre-selected host is configured as a failover server.
An Access Control List (ACL) is a list of permissions that are attached to an object. The list defines who can access the object (an agent) and what actions the agent can perform on the object.
The maximum number of clients - the combination of vovtaskers, user interfaces and proxies, that can be concurrently connected to a vovserver is limited by the number of file descriptors available.
Users are now able to leverage existing Kafka systems and compatible reporting tools to monitor VOV projects.
Accelerator stores historical information about jobs in a relational database. As of version 2015.09, the database is fully integrated and managed as part of Accelerator. This section provides an overview of the components that run and manage the database.
Preemption is the process of reserving or revoking resources from other jobs in order to help "important jobs" finish quickly.
Altair Accelerator includes a subsystem for managing computing resources. This allows the design team to factor in various constraints regarding hardware and software resources, as well as site policy constraints.
This is a usage guide for the Resource Data Service (RDS), an alternative service for managing License resources and License-first scheduling in Accelerator.
The Streaming Data Service (SDS) publishes a time series data stream that can be consumed by existing Kafka systems and compatible reporting tools to monitor VOV projects.
To ensure the correct and repeatable behavior of the tools, the environment must be controlled. This chapter explains how VOV supports multiple reusable environments.
This section provides instructions to change the software version on which Accelerator runs.
This daemon vovfilerd replaces older daemons like vovisilond, vovnetappd and vovregulatord. Also the utility vovfiler_setup is no longer needed. The visualization of the filer information is now done either via the vovfilerd.cgi page or via the utility vovfilerdgui.
This chapter provides information about deprecated features that are still supported. This information is provided should you see older commands in use after a software upgrade or migrating to a newer Accelerator.
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