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This will be a short post on using screen sessions when running long jobs on remote servers. Using screen session will help if you don't want something that is running to stop when you loose connection to the server. I use this when i run long running jobs on the super computers at my lab in interactive mode. But this can be useful with any remote server so i thought i should to a small write up regarding this. Installation First you would need to make sure that the remote server ( Linux based ) has screen installed. just type the following command to check the screen version, if it is not installed you would have to install it or ask the system admin to install it for you. $ screen -version Screen installation command $ sudo apt-get install screen How it works How screens work is simple to understand. After login in to the remote server you create a screen session and continue work inside the screen session. You can run something in the screen session and leav...

This post part 2 from a series of posts that are extracted from a technical report i wrote for a research study and Indiana University. The full paper can be found in the  digital science center  publications page, or you can get the pdf link  here . I thought of posting the content here so more people can access the content which i think might be helpful to some. I am breaking this down into several posts because of the length of the document. The content is based on my knowledge and the current technologies as of day of writing the report and i might not have got everything correct. Please point out what you think in the comments if you think i have got something wrong, Will try to respond and update the document if needed. Will also include the list of references in each post for completeness. Part 1:   Similarities and Differences Between Parallel Systems and Distributed Systems Part 1 This post will give the introduction and compare and contrast the tw...

This post part 1 from a series of posts that are extracted from a technical report i wrote for a research study and Indiana University. The full paper can be found in the digital science center publications page, or you can get the pdf link here . I thought of posting the content here so more people can access the content which i think might be helpful to some. I am breaking this down into several posts because of the length of the document. The content is based on my knowledge and the current technologies as of day of writing the report and i might not have got everything correct. Please point out what you think in the comments if you think i have got something wrong, Will try to respond and update the document if needed. Will also include the list of references in each post for completeness. This post will give the introduction and compare and contrast the two domains with regards to the following Fault tolerance  Support of collectives  Dynamic resources utilization...