> > Most of what we do is a bunch of simple association tests of hundreds of > thousands of millions of genetic markers with some trait in around 7,000 > subjects. Every job will do something like 5,000 of the tests and make > some output, then we combine the output files into one file when all the > jobs have finished. We have ten 12-core compute nodes, so 120 corse, with > 32 GB RAM per node we can access 2.5 GB per core and run 120 jobs at once. > So using the Torque PBS (free software, I believe) on the CentOS system > with Rocks, we'll launch hundreds of jobs at once and they'll use all 120 > cores until they're all done. > Most of the work is done in R. That sounds like a lot of fun! More fun than what I'm doing now, at least. I've always wanted to try writing some R. It's a bit off topic, sorry. -> Jake On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Jake Vath wrote: > > That's pretty neat. What are you guys doing with Tourque? >> > > Most of what we do is a bunch of simple association tests of hundreds of > thousands of millions of genetic markers with some trait in around 7,000 > subjects. Every job will do something like 5,000 of the tests and make > some output, then we combine the output files into one file when all the > jobs have finished. We have ten 12-core compute nodes, so 120 corse, with > 32 GB RAM per node we can access 2.5 GB per core and run 120 jobs at once. > So using the Torque PBS (free software, I believe) on the CentOS system > with Rocks, we'll launch hundreds of jobs at once and they'll use all 120 > cores until they're all done. > > Most of the work is done in R. > > > Mike > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130322/e9b508c2/attachment-0001.html>