How to distribute massive perl jobs to Windows cluster.
Intro: PHS research computing has installed ActivePerl and BioPerl on our windows cluster. You can submit massive perl program as the same as you submitted in the linux clusters. One particular useful feature is that you can use parametric sweep to quickly depoly large amount of independent jobs into the cluster without writing any extra job script.
The path of Active Perl is \\rcwinclu\sharedApp\ActivePerl\bin\perl.exe, you need to specify it in your job configuration.
Step 1. Please read "Access windows cluster rcwinclu" and How to submit a job in windows cluster before proceed.
Step 2. Configure your perl job environment
* Upload your perl program and necessary datasets to the cluster stroage \\rcwinclu\PartnersID.
* If you will submit single perl job: Start HPC Job Manager from your own desktop (or from HPCWIN), configure your job like this 
* If you will submit many perl jobs, you can configure your job through parametric sweep, like this
* If you will submit many jobs but have complicated parameters instead of simple parametric sweep, you can programmetically submit those jobs, please refer How to programatically submit many batch jobs
Step 3. Click the "submit" button to submit jobs.
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