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REMORA

Description

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REMORA — which stands for REsource MOnitoring for Remote Applications — is a lightweight HPC tool from TACC that attaches to your job and tracks per-node/per-job runtime metrics like CPU, memory, I/O, network, and MPI usage so you can analyze performance with minimal overhead.

Environment Modules

Run module spider remora to find out what environment modules are available for this application.

Environment Variables

  • HPC_REMORA_DIR - installation directory
  • HPC_REMORA_BIN - executable directory
  • REMORA_BIN - executable directory

Additional Usage Information

To use the tool, modify your batch script and include 'remora' before your script, executable, or MPI launcher. E.g. 

module load remora ncbi_blast
remora blastn -db nt ....

Citation

If you publish research that uses remora you have to cite it as follows:

C. Rosales, A. Gómez-Iglesias, A. Predoehl. "REMORA: a Resource Monitoring Tool for Everyone". HUST2015 November 15-20, 2015, Austin, TX, USA. http://doi.org/10.1145/2834996.2834999

Categories

performance_analysis