CPU-hour accounting

To execute jobs on the supercomputer facilities one needs a user account plus password. Visit this page to apply for an account.

Each user account is connected to at least one project (account). Each project is allocated a number of CPU hours (or quota). CPU-hour usage is defined as the elapsed (wall-clock) time of the user's job multiplied by the number of processors that is used. The quota is the maximum number of CPU hours that all the users connected to this project together can consume. After the quota is exhausted, it is no longer possible to submit jobs and one needs to apply for additional quota first.

How to obtain total CPU-hour usage so far is explained below.

CRAY XT4 (hexagon.bccs.uib.no)

cost - will show CPU-hour accounting for the current user.
gbalance - will show resources per project.
gstatement - is used to generate statement for account activities.
gusage - will show charge totals for each user that completed jobs.
glsres - is used to check reservations(jobs which are still running and was not charged yet).

For all commands mentioned above module gold should be loaded.

IBM e1350 cluster (fimm.bccs.uib.no)

The cost command shows the CPU-hour accounting.

If you need more detailed usage information, you can access the accounting database at

https://zope.ii.uib.no/qbank-fimm/fimm-usage

and fill the start and end date of the desired period.

(NOTE that these pages are still experimental and thus may have undocumented features.)