[Wien] How can I run the job on the background?

[Robert Laskowski]

this should work for parallel runs, both k-pont and mpi

Robert

On Thursday 09 July 2009 14:38:36 Jian-Xin Zhu wrote:
> Dear Robert, Stefaan, Laurence, and  Tomohiko,
> 
> Thank you all for sharing your precious experience with me.
> 
> I first tried Stefan and Laurence's suggestion. Unfortunately, because the
> file at.allow is missing in the etc/at directory (I am using a machine
> with 8 CPUs under Mac OS X Leopard), I didn't succeed. I will ask my
> computer administrator to create this file and add my account name into
> the file. I will keep you posted of the result when it is available.
> 
> I then saw Robert and Tomohiko's suggestion.
> I tested without the option of -p (.machines file is not set), i.e.,
> serial mode. It worked!
> I now create a .machines file and run the command as
> 
> nohup   run_lapw -cc 0.001 -i 40  -p >& stderrout &
> 
> It seems to also work. But I am not sure because Tomohiko put forward his
> suggestion by mentioning specifically the serial mode. Tomohiko, can you
> comment further?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Jianxin
> 
> 



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