AIT Alpha Farm: fcmd
For easy use of the farm, use fcmd on any Project Vincent workstation.
If you usually issue commands like
a.out
or
a.out > output1 &
You can issue the same commands with fcmd in front.
fcmd a.out
or
fcmd 'a.out > output1' &
The advantages are that if you have lots of work to do,
you can off-load some of that work to the Alpha Farm and
get your work done faster.
Restrictions: 40 Mbytes memory,
24 hrs. CPUtime,
at most 5 fcmds run at the same time from all users.
(fcmd_S128, fmcd_M and fcmd_T provide greater resources.)
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