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- The name of the machine will be ecflow-tc2-zid-number. If you don't have a server yet, please raise an issue through the ECMWF support portal requesting one.
- The HOME on the VM running the server is not the same as any of the two $HOMEs on HPCF, depending on the STHOST selected.
- For your convenience, the ecFlow server's home can be accessed directly from any Atos HPCF node on /home/zid.
- You should keep the suite files (.ecf files and headers) on the ecFlow server's HOME, while using the native Lustre filesystems in the corresponding STHOST as working directories for your jobs. so it can
- You may also want to use the server's HOME for your job standard output and error. That should make it easier when it comes to monitoring with ecFlowUI. Otherwise, you may also need to run a log server on the HPCF (using the hpc-log node) depending on where if your job output goes and where you run your ecflowUI if you need to inspect the job outputsto a Lustre-based filesystem.
Similarly to the general purpose ecFlow servers, these TC2 ecFlow servers come with "troika", the tool used in production at ECMWF to manage the submission, kill and status query for operational jobs.