Get text messages/email alerts when your Deepthought2 jobs finish running.

This program runs in the background on the login node, and is alive until your job has finished running. Because this duration may be long, it could potentially violate the HPC usage policy concerning login node usage. Be warned: if you decide to run this program, it will be at your own risk.

Somewhere in your Deepthought2 space, clone this repository, build the C program, and add it to PATH:

bash
git clone https://www.github.com/hsirkar/snotify
cd snotify
make
export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd)

First, run your submission script.

> sbatch submit.sh
Submitted batch job 12345678

To get an email when job 12345678 completes:

snotify -j 12345678 -e [email protected]

To get a text message:

snotify -j 12345678 -p 3285550156 -c verizon

Supported carriers (not all tested):

• att
• sprint
• tmobile
• verizon
• boost
• cricket
• ting
• virgin
• uscellular
• straighttalk
• metropcs

If you want to verify that snotify works for your email or phone, you can test with the provided hello-world program:

cd test
make
sbatch submit.sh
snotify -j <job-id> -e <email> | -p <phone> -c <carrier>

snotify runs in the background and listens for changes to squeue. If it sees that your job id is no longer in the queue, it sends you an email/text notification saying your job is complete, and terminates.

Most cell carriers provide a gateway that lets you text a number by sending an email. This is what snotify uses to send text messages, and this is why the carrier needs to be known.

I literally wrote this in one day, so I'm sure it's full of bugs. If you can fix something or want to add a feature, then feel free to send a PR. Contributions are absolutely welcome!

The code is still in alpha and not everything has been tested. If this program causes anything to break or go wrong, then I'm not responsible for anything. If you need to terminate it, use ps -xj | grep snotify to get the process id, and then pkill it.

Good luck with your projects!