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Step 3: Start an ecflow server

After ecflow_server is started, the suite definition, can then be loaded into it.

• The user then initiates scheduling in the ecflow_server
• scheduling will check dependencies in the suite definition every minute. If these dependencies are free, the server will submit the task. This process is called job creation. The running process corresponding to the task is referred to as a job.

The running jobs will communicate back to the server using child commands. These cause:

• status changes on the nodes held in the server.
• update to attributes of a node (i.e. like events, meters and labels)