Job Accounting

Cores on a socket cannot be allocated to multiple jobs. Because the NCCS charges based on what a job makes unavailable to others, a job is charged for an entire socket even if it uses only one core on a socket. To simplify the process, users are required to request an entire socket through PBS. Odd core requests are rejected upon submission.

The cpuhour charge for each job will be as follows:

cores requested * ( job's endtime - job's starttime)

The showusage utility can be used to view your usage from January 01 through midnight of the previous day. For example,

>showusage
 Usage on jaguar:
                                  Project Totals          <userid>
 Project      Allocation        Usage    Remaining          Usage
_________________________|___________________________|_____________
 <YourProj>    2000000   |   123456.78   1876543.22  |     1560.80

The -h option will list more usage details.