CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre EMPA/daint

YAML arguments

The following arguments are used to configure the plugin. pyCIF will return an exception at the initialization if mandatory arguments are not specified, or if any argument does not fit accepted values or type:

Optional arguments

python : str, optional, default “python”

Path to the python interpreter to used.

nodes : int, optional, default 1

number of nodes to use by the jobs launched to run a CIF segment (analytic, EnKF modes)

cores : int, optional, default 36

number of cores per node to use by the jobs launched by the CIF (analytic, EnKF modes)

time : str, optional, default “01:30:00”

Time limit of the job

queue : str, optional, default “normal”

queue on which to submit the jobs launched by the CIF (analytic, EnKF modes)

constraint : str, optional, default “mc”

Run on multicores (mc) or GPUs (gpu).

project : str, optional, default “em05”

project on which to submit job

memory : int, optional

Amount of memory to us in Gb

time_model : str, optional

Time limit of the model job if different job

nodes_model : int, optional

number of nodes to use by the jobs launched to run the model

memory_model : int, optional

Amount of memory to us in Gb for the model if different job

Requirements

The current plugin requires the present plugins to run properly:

Requirement name	Requirement type	Explicit definition	Any valid	Default name	Default version
model	Model	True	True	None	None

YAML template

Please find below a template for a YAML configuration:

platform:
  plugin:
    name: EMPA
    version: daint
    type: platform

    # Optional arguments
    python: XXXXX  # str
    nodes: XXXXX  # int
    cores: XXXXX  # int
    time: XXXXX  # str
    queue: XXXXX  # str
    constraint: XXXXX  # str
    project: XXXXX  # str
    memory: XXXXX  # int
    time_model: XXXXX  # str
    nodes_model: XXXXX  # int
    memory_model: XXXXX  # int