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VCSBeam version

Required: >= v2v3.182.181

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# On Garrawarla, test vcsbeam version
$ module use /pawsey/mwa/software/python3/modulefiles
$ module load vcsbeam
$ make_mwa_tied_array_beam -V
MWA Beamformer v2.18.8_99df2a4

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titlemake_legacy.sbatch
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#!/bin/bash -l

#SBATCH --nodes=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH --mem=370gb
#SBATCH --partition=gpuq
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:1
#SBATCH --time=01:00:00
#SBATCH --account=mwavcs
#SBATCH --export=NONE

module use /pawsey/mwa/software/python3/modulefiles
module load vcsbeam
module load openmpi-ucx-gpu

DATAPATH=/astro/mwavcs/asvo/252057

srun -N 1 -n 1 fine_pfb_offline -m $DATAPATH/1320499816.metafits -b 1320499816 -T 600 -f FREQ -d $DATAPATH

Incoherent Beam

(Currently not tested since v2.18. Results not guaranteed.)

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$ cd /astro/mwavcs/vcs/1320499816/vcsbeam/incoh
$ sbatch vcsbeam_incoh.sbatch

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For an as yet unknown reason, this RTS job timed out, even after allowing 4 hours of wall time.

Beamforming

This also requires vcsbeam >= v2.18.16Beamforming directly from MWAX (which does the fine PFB on GPU memory) requires >= 3.2.1.

Using the Hyperdrive solution (1320412440)

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title/astro/mwavcs/vcs/1320499816/vcsbeam/coh/vcsbeam.sbatch
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#!/bin/bash -l

#SBATCH --nodes=24
#SBATCH --ntasks-per-node=1
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --mem=370gb
#SBATCH --partition=gpuq
#SBATCH --gres=gpu:1
#SBATCH --time=01:00:00
#SBATCH --account=mwavcs
#SBATCH --nice=0
#SBATCH --export=NONE
 
module use /pawsey/mwa/software/python3/modulefiles
module load vcsbeam
 
srun -N 24 -n 24 make_mwa_tied_array_beam \
    -m /astro/mwavcs/vcsasvo/1320499816/vcsbeam252057/1320499816_legacy.metafitsfits \
    -b 1320499824 \
    -T 592 \
    -f 109 \
    -d /astro/mwavcs/vcsasvo/1320499816/combined252057 \
    -P pointings.txt \
    -F flagged_tilenames.txt \
    -c 1320412440_metafits_ppds.fits \
    -C /astro/mwavcs/vcs/1320499816/cal/1320412440/hyperdrive/hyperdrive_solutions.bin \
    -p -R NONE -U 0,0 -O -X

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With vcsbeam git commit 835e2af (v2.20.0)

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titleRun beamforming job
$ module load singularity
$ /pawsey/mwa/singularity/presto/presto.sif prepfold -psr J0034-0721 -nosearch -nodmsearch C001_1320499816_00:34:08.87_-07:21:53.41_ch109-132_000?.fits

***(Needs to be updated)***

Single Channel

Changing all the number of nodes "24" to "1" in the sbatch script above produces the following:

A good single pulse for testing purposes

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