macomp00 - a new staging server for the compute cluster
A staging server has been added to the macomp cluster so that cluster users can test programs and code without having to submit them to the main queuing system. macomp00 is set up identically to the main cluster except that it is not part of the job queuing system so test jobs can be run 'out of queue' for more than 30 minutes.
However, it must be stressed that macomp00 should be used for test purposes only - it is not a production server nor is it based on production grade hardware; it has a single core 64-bit Pentium 4 processor and 4 Gb of memory with no scratch disk which is adequate for test runs but not for running multiple jobs.