Project Information

Sometimes you need to obtain information about current (or past) projects running at HPC2N and their recent CPUhours usage. For that purpose you can use a program called

projinfo

which allows users to list: 

• project name, principal investigator (PI) and duration;
• allocation in CPUhours/month to a specific cluster and the recent fairshare usage;
• real usage in CPUhours in the last two months;
• MAXPS for a given project;
• user accounts (and names) related to a project.

projinfo's synopsis is as follows: 

projinfo [-v] [-q] [-o] [-u user] [-p project] [-c cluster]

   -v : prints authorized users of a project
   -q : quiet, only print data (intended for script use)
   -o : print information about all (old) projects, not just current
   -u user : print information about specific user
   -p project : print information about specific project
   -c cluster : only print allocations on specific cluster
   -h : prints this help
    

If run without any option, projinfo lists all projects for the current user. If -v option is specified, authorized user accounts will be listed along with the corresponding real names. Sometimes usage information is not available in the job scheduler Maui, in which case you will see N/A for usage. Note that the real usage is approximate but gives a quick indication of the time used. However, the final scheduling priority is determined (among other things) by comparing recent fairshare usage with fairshare utilization target (displayed by projinfo in percent). The following example lists information for an example project HPC2N-2008-010 (projinfo is run on the Akka cluster): 

akka$ projinfo -p HPC2N-2008-010 -v

Information for project HPC2N-2008-010:
    Some PI: Some project title
    Active from 20081015 to 20090630
Allocations:
    akka:       6000 CPUhours/month, used 206.25% of allocation recently
Approx. usage in Dec 2008:
    akka:       1067 CPUhours
Approx. usage in Nov 2008:
    akka:       10112 CPUhours
MAXPS (soft,hard):
    akka:       2160,6480 CPUhours/month
Authorised users:
    username    User's real name