SGE tip - selecting a host

This is the first of my tips for using SGE. Sometimes you need to tell grid engine that you want to run on a particular host. In these cases you need to  add the option

-l h=hostname

This will tell grid engine to apply whatever other rules it wants to,  but in the end only run your job if it can run on the host hostname.

Software for scientists

The site Software Carpentry is one of the better sites out there for scientists and researchers who want to learn more about computational science codes. It covers everything from Linux shells, to version control, to actual code development. I can't suggest strongly enough that people interested in this should go check the site out.