Appion

Hi could we please have the RCT reconstructions defaulted to 1 node instead of 2 (point 2 as described above)?

Also, points 3 and 4 would be nice too, but not as important.

Thanks!

Hi,

It would be really great if the job file created for RCT jobs could specify 1 node with 4 processors instead of 2 nodes. The routine uses only 1 node, so when a job is created in appion it takes up an extra node for absolutely no reason (the job will not run any faster) thereby contributing to the guppy queues, unless each job file created is manually changed.

I imagine the change that is needed would be from this:
#PBS -l nodes=2:ppn=4

to this:
#PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=4

I would really appreciate it if this change could be made.
Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Thanks,
Melody

Hi Amber,

You mentioned it would help to have a test session for this issue with all the stacks and particles set up. A good session you can use is this one:

13mar22c

If you go to "90 complete" under "Particle Clustering" then you will see a bunch of 2D class averages select one of them (any of them) and then click "Create RCT Volume." You can leave all the default parameters as is, just put in a mask radius (ex 75) and a mass (ex 150) and then it should run. You'll see in the created job file it will request 2 nodes instead of 1 node. That is all that needs to be changed.

Thanks.
Melody