"qsub: Invalid Account specification" when submitting job to Barrine HPC

Question

[e.powell3]

I am trying to get an interactive session on Barrine HPC but I am getting the following error:

$ qsub -I -l select=1:ncpus=1:mem=5gb:nodetype=medium -l walltime=3:0:0 -A uqepowe3 -q interact
qsub: Invalid Account specification, the Account is unknown or you are not a member!

I am sure that I have an account because I have logged into Barrine several times.

Also, please note that this happens regardless of whether I am submitting a job of requesting an interactive session; all my qsub commands return the same error.

Answer 1

[e.powell3]

The problem is that you must use your group account for the -A <account> argument, not your username (e.g. uqepowe3).

You can find the group accounts associated with your username by using the groups command:

$ groups uqepowe3
uqepowe3 : sf-UQ bioinformatics2

Please use the group account corresponding to your departmental/organisational affiliation (e.g. sf-UQ) and not the bioinformatics group (e.g. bioinformatics2).

The correct command should be:

$ qsub -I -l select=1:ncpus=1:mem=5gb:nodetype=medium -l walltime=3:0:0 -A sf-UQ -q interact