Below is list of handy command-line utilities written by SciNet to help manage your data and compute.
Note that in the table, optional arguments are denoted with square brackets (i.e. '[]'), while mandatory arguments are denoted with angular brackets (i.e. '<>').
Storage
| Command
|
Arguments
|
Description
|
Cluster
|
| quota
|
|
Short overview of a user's storage usage.
|
Niagara
|
| diskUsage
|
-h to see all command options
|
Informs about the user and group file system usage.
|
Niagara, BGQ
|
| topUserDirOver1000list
|
|
Lists your directories that have over 1,000 files
|
Niagara
|
| topUserDirOver1GBlist
|
|
Lists your directories that have over 1 GB of data
|
Niagara
|
Jobs & Queues
| Command
|
Arguments
|
Description
|
Cluster
|
| qsum
|
most squeue arguments work
|
Lists jobs running or in the queue, grouped by user.
|
Niagara
|
| llq2
|
|
Detailed information on jobs that are actively running.
|
BGQ
|
| scinet niagara priority
|
|
Compute usage in the last 7 days, and how this affects your priority in the queue.
|
Niagara
|
| nodeperf
|
[userName]
|
Who is doing what on the current node?
|
NIagara
|
| jobperf
|
<jobId | jobName>
|
Informs about the performance of all nodes of a given job.
|
NIagara
|
| debugjob
|
[number of nodes]
|
Requests a time-limited interactive session of up to 4 dedicated nodes
|
Niagara
|
Modules
| Command
|
Arguments
|
Description
|
Cluster
|
| ml
|
|
"module list"
|
NIagara
|
| ml
|
<modulename>
|
"module load <modulename>"
|
NIagara
|
| ml
|
X
|
"module X"
|
NIagara
|
Related Topics
Checking the memory usage from jobs
GPC Quickstart
Scheduler
Monitoring Jobs
Tech Talk on Monitoring Jobs