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Information about printing

Cluster information:

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Reserved Disks

Certain data disks are reserved for personnal work. Please DO NOT use those disks without permission from the primary user. The following list was updated March 15th, 2005 :

OpenPBS Batch system

OpenPBS is a replacement for the obsolete DQS batch system. It is under active development by the folks at www.openpbs.org and is supposed to be an overall improvement over DQS. In TWIST setup, it works together with the Maui scheduler (www.supercluster.org), which actually decides when to run a job and what machine to use.

OpenPBS is installed on all nodes of the twist cluster and you can start using it now:

Special TWIST-specific features:

More information about OpenPBS is available from Konstantin's OpenPBS page, from www.openpbs.org and from NASA.

AcroRead:

Acrobat reader is available from TRIUMFCS as /triumfcs/linux/bin/acroread

OpenOffice:

To use OpenOffice. do this:

    1) run the installation script "/triumfcs/linux/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup".
    a) leave the registration page empty
    b) select the "Workstation installation"
    c) use the default installation path "$HOME/OpenOffice.org1.0"
    2) to run open office use the command:
    $HOME/OpenOffice.org1.0/soffice
    3) to print, use "print to file"- the open office printer selection
    does not like the triumf printing setup.
    

Printing:

You can print using pdq or lpr. pdq offers better printer control (double vs single sided, paper vs transparency) while lpr can print to all triumf printers via the triumfcs print server (here is the list of printers).

How to use pdq

The PDQ printing system offers simpler control of printer features (single or double sided, tray selection) and does not depend on any daemons and queues. To print things, it communicates with the printer directly. To use pdq, add /home/olchansk/packages/pdq/bin into your path and use these pdq commands:

Printers and queues (8-Aug-2001)


Obsolete information---

DQS Batch system: (dismantled)

Misc...


Konstantin Olchanski
Last modified: Fri Dec 6 15:57:14 PST 2002