Running serial jobs on C4

There are two methods to run serial jobs on C4: either use the csub script, or write your own submission script directly.

Using csub

The csub script prepares an HTCondor submission script to run a serial job and submits that script to the scheduler. For example,

csub cat /proc/cpuinfo

will print the contents of /proc/cpuinfo to the standard output (which is saved to a file csub-XXXX-o.0). By default, csub will only consider nodes allocated to the class; if you want to allow any old node, supply csub the -a flag.

Writing your own submission script

The csub script generates a standard HTCondor submission script, but you can certainly produce your own script!