[Clas_offline] Fwd: [Jlab-scicomp-briefs] Upcoming changes to batch farm job submission

[Nathan Baltzell]

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> From: Bryan Hess <bhess at jlab.org>
> Subject: [Jlab-scicomp-briefs] Upcoming changes to batch farm job submission
> Date: December 15, 2021 at 1:27:17 PM EST
> To: "jlab-scicomp-briefs at jlab.org" <jlab-scicomp-briefs at jlab.org>
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> Beginning on March 1st, 2022 the Auger and swif version 1 commands will no longer be available. They have been superseded by the Slurm workload manager and by and swif version 2 (swif2): 
> Slurm includes GPU and MPI support, features absent in Auger. Detailed documentation on how to use Slurm on the farm is available here:  https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_slurm_batch <https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_slurm_batch>   
> Swif2 is built on top of Slurm and supports running workflows with file staging, both locally and at remote sites. The manual is available here:  https://scicomp.jlab.org/swif2.html <https://scicomp.jlab.org/swif2.html>  
> For more information on the upcoming change and the changes to the job submission, please see the migration guide:  
>  https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_auger_migration_guide <https://scicomp.jlab.org/docs/farm_auger_migration_guide>  
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> For further questions on Slurm, swif2, or the schedule, please submit a request to ServiceNow at https://jlab.servicenowservices.com <https://jlab.servicenowservices.com/> or by emailing helpdesk at jlab.org <mailto:helpdesk at jlab.org> 
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> Schedule 
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> On Tuesday, January 4th the following commands will be deprecated and issue a warning: 
> jsub, jkill, jobinfo, swif1, swif 
> On Tuesday, February 8th, jobs submitted using Auger or swif1 will have reduced scheduling capacity to encourage transition to Slurm and swif2.  
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> On Tuesday, March 1st, the deprecated commands will be removed, Auger and SWIF1 services will be shut down, and documentation will be removed. The swif command will become an alias for swif2. 
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