[VoxBo] queue issues

[Stacy Huffstetler]

That definitely seems like the issue.  Both of the slow jobs are on
computers with a really high load.
Thanks for your help.

Stacy

On 8/24/06, Dongbo Hu <dongbo at mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
> Is it possible that somebody else is using other software to process the
> data (such as matlab/spm, which you may not see from the voxbo queue)?
>
> Dongbo
>
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Stacy Huffstetler wrote:
>
> >_My job was the only job in the queue for the first 20 hours.  Now I've
> added
> >_another job.
> >_It also happens regardless of how many GLMs I'm running at
> once.  Sometimes
> >_I'll put eight of them in (all the same), and just one will take over a
> day.
> >_
> >_Stacy
> >_
> >_On 8/24/06, Dongbo Hu <dongbo at mail.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >_>
> >_> It depends on how busy the cluster is when you submit your job. If
> most of
> >_> the CPUs are idle when you submit your jobs, they will grab the
> fastest
> >_> CPUs and get processed quickly. If a lot of other people are also
> using
> >_> the system, your job will have to wait and take longer time to finish.
> >_>
> >_> Dongbo
> >_>
> >_> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Stacy Huffstetler wrote:
> >_>
> >_> >_This might be a relatively minor issue, but if there's a quick fix
> (or a
> >_> >_good explanation) it would be really nice.
> >_> >_
> >_> >_Sometimes when I run a GLM the job called regress takes about an
> hour to
> >_> >_complete and sometimes it takes over 24.  I can't seem to figure out
> any
> >_> >_logic or pattern as to why the time varies so much.  I've run the
> same
> >_> GLM
> >_> >_on the same subject and had dramatically different processing
> >_> times.  I've
> >_> >_split the job into two pieces and I've split it into ten, and I've
> had
> >_> the
> >_> >_same problem with both.
> >_> >_
> >_> >_Any ideas/solutions?
> >_> >_
> >_> >_Thanks!
> >_> >_
> >_> >_Stacy
> >_> >_
> >_> >_--
> >_> >_Stacy Huffstetler
> >_> >_Research Assistant
> >_> >_University of Pennsylvania
> >_> >_Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
> >_> >_Dr. Matthew Botvinick's Lab
> >_> >_Phone:  215-898-2966
> >_> >_http://ccn.upenn.edu/~mmb
> >_> >_shuffste at mail.med.upenn.edu
> >_> >_
> >_>
> >_
> >_
> >_
> >_--
> >_Stacy Huffstetler
> >_Research Assistant
> >_University of Pennsylvania
> >_Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
> >_Dr. Matthew Botvinick's Lab
> >_Phone:  215-898-2966
> >_http://ccn.upenn.edu/~mmb
> >_shuffste at mail.med.upenn.edu
> >_
>



-- 
Stacy Huffstetler
Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr. Matthew Botvinick's Lab
Phone:  215-898-2966
http://ccn.upenn.edu/~mmb
shuffste at mail.med.upenn.edu
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