Instructions to Invoke ASReml on the CRADC Nodes

Nov 20, 2003

ASReml 1.1 installed on all CRADC compute nodes is a batch driven program. To invoke ASReml you would need to run the ASReml executable from the command prompt as described below.

1. Open the Command Prompt by clicking on:
   
   Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt
   
   At the Command Prompt:
   
   Type the drive name followed by a colon to switch to a different drive, and use a "cd" command to navigate to your authorized folder, here is an example:
   
   



2. Run the ASReml Job at the Command Prompt as follows:
   
   > "C:\Program Files\ASReml\ASReml110.exe" [options] my_file
   
   Where "C:\Program Files\ASReml\ASReml110.exe" is the ASReml 1.1 executable file and my_file is a file with type .as that contains the ASReml control cards. (See a test program ari.as in the directory R:\Development\ASReml\. The program reads input data from an ascii file ari.dat which is also saved in the same folder). Here is an example:
   
   
   
   
   
   In the above example -sj is an ASReml command line option to increase memory allocation to the program.
   
   Note: A successful run of your program produces several output files with different file extensions in the current folder. All output files inherit the first part of their name as the program name. For example, our test program "ari.as" produces output files like "ari.asr", "ari.res", "ari.rsv", "ari.sln",..