[MITgcm-devel] Re: testing on ACES

[aces-admin at techsquare.com]

hello jmc-

how much disk-space does the test require ? 

[greg]

> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 16:30:54 -0400
> From: Jean-Michel Campin <jmc at ocean.mit.edu>
> Cc: mitgcm-devel at mitgcm.org
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> testing on ACES is not working so well:
> - had a disk full on /net/ds-01/scratch-5 last Friday (Apr 06)
> - yesterday and today, disk acces to /net/ds-01/scratch-5
>  is very slow. To give an idea, on faulks, working on
>  a local disk, it takes less than 8 mn to remove the previous test
>  dir and to download a fresh copy of the code. On the computer nodes
>  of ao, it takes ~5.h to remove the previous dir (even if they contains
>  much less), and after an other 10.h, the downloading (using cvs) is
>  far from being over.
>  The consequence is that after 24.h, only few test (at best)
>  will be completed, and it will stop by reaching the PBS job
>  time limit.
> suggestions ?
> 
> Jean-Michel
>