Grid computing, with some effort, can result in huge gains in computing power per unit time. Its most straightforward use is to run one single script with many different parameters. Here are some essential documents from the Rice IT website:
Queue Policy: 16 jobs can be running for a user at any given time because 16 is the number of cores one user can use at a time. There seems to be no maximum to the number of jobs one can submit at a time. The SUG@R scheduler takes care of the rest.
Useful Links Outside Rice
UNIX:
vim – how to indent multiple lines (see visual one with keystrokes! I didn’t understand the others.)
vim – setting preferences in .vimrc file (doesn’t show up in home directory on ls)
vim – search (find) and replace
.pbs commands
— commit multiple jobs it’s probably better than writing a script to submit many jobs, plus qdel, qalter, and the others will work on job arrays as a whole.