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- Navigation to experiment creation page Main Menu --> Experiment --> Create Experiment
- Create Experiment Page - Experiment Information
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Image VI - Create Experiment
- First enter/select given fields;
- Experiment Name (Mandatory)
- Experiment Description (Optional)
- Project (Select from the available LOV. Latest will be on top; auto selected)
- Application (Select from the available LOV)
and click ‘Continue’. At this point, the user can clear any entered fields by clicking ‘Reset Values’ before continuing. - Then continue entering Application configuration information.
- Experiment application input (Mandatory) - Application input can be in the form of entering data or uploading required input files.
NOTE: Uploading file validity is not checked by the gateway. User has the responsibility of uploading correct files. - Compute Resource (select from the available LOV. If the application is existing in a single resource, it will be the default value)
- Queue (a default value will be taken if not changed by the user)
- Node Count (If not entered default value will be taken as the input)
- Total Core Count (If not entered default value will be taken as the input)
- Wall Time Limit (If not entered default value will be taken as the input)
- Total Physical Memory (If not entered default value 0 will be taken as the input)
- Notifications: Add email address if required to receive job starting and completing notifications from compute resource itself.
NOTE: For some compute resources, above default values will not be correct. User needs to change the node count in such cases.
- Create Experiment - Application Configuration Part
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- While entering application configurations user can start over from the beginning using ‘Start Over’ button.
- Once saved or saved and launched user will be directed to ‘Experiment Summary’ page; from summary page can monitor experiment status changes.
- Experiment Summary Page
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Launch Experiment
- The experiment can be launched using
To launch an experiment can use the same - 'Create Experiment' screen.
Apart from saving the experiment user can - Click 'Save & Launch
at the same time using button ‘Save and Launch’.User can also create and save the experiment to launch later. To launch later user has to navigate to - ' button to directly launch the experiment.
- If the experiment was just CREATED for a later launch, the user can launch from 'Experiment Summary' Page
.If the experiment is not supposed to launch e.g.: a COMPLETED, LAUNCHED experiment, then the launch button will be disabled.- . For experiments that are 'launchable' 'Launch' button will be enabled in summary page.
NOTE: Experiments only in CREATED state can be launched.
Tutorial IV - Browse Experiments
- User can search for experiment created by him/her through
- Experiments → Browse
OR - Browse Projects → View Project → View Experiment (by clicking on the status of the experiment) - Please refer Search Projects in "Tutorial II" above.
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Search Browe Experiments search keys are;
Experiment Name
Experiment Description
Application
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Browse Experiments Page
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Creation Time - User can provide 'From Date' and 'To Date'
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All the experiments of the user will be listed; latest on top. User can also select the search by key, user has to give a value to search for using the key. Partial values, complete values, (*) wild card can be used to search.
Click on Search once the search key is selected and value is entered. User can also search for experiments by giving the status.
All the experiments as per entered Key value pair will be listed.
By clicking on the 'Status' user will be navigated to ‘Experiment Summary’ screen of each experiment.
In experiment summary users can;
Launch experiment - Explained in above Tutorial III
Cancel experiment
Clone experiment
Edit experiment
User can edit an experiment by navigating to 'Edit Experiment' page. Edit button next to each experiment name will navigate user to 'Edit Experiment' page of each experiment.
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