• The Sun Grid Engine environment is used for submitting and managing jobs on Aster.

• Use the command "man sge_intro" on aster to check the manual.

• Check out http://www.scs.fsu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Computing/ScsSGE for examples.

• For extensive information, go to this URL http://gridengine.sunsource.net/documentation.html.

• The software itself is located in /opt/gridengine on aster. Examples are in directory /opt/gridengine/examples.

• There are 3 steps to submit a job: (1) prepare the executable file, such as a FORTRAN executable file; (2) write a shell script; (3) launch qmon or qsub to submit the job. Click here to see an example.

• Common used Grid Engine commands: qstat: check job status; qdel:delete jobs from queues.

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