@wtempel If we can get this lag issue resolved, that will be great. If we directly ping the machine, it looks normal. The lag seems to be within cryosparc.
Here are the output for the two command lines you suggested. Let me know if there is any.
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(base) [whuang@tayloret ~]$ cryosparcm cli "get_scheduler_targets()"
[{'cache_path': '/scr/scratch/', 'cache_quota_mb': None, 'cache_reserve_mb': 10000, 'desc': None, 'gpus': [{'id': 0, 'mem': 42314694656, 'name': 'NVIDIA A100-PCIE-40GB'}, {'id': 1, 'mem': 42314694656, 'name': 'NVIDIA A100-PCIE-40GB'}], 'hostname': '129.22.208.53', 'lane': 'a100', 'monitor_port': None, 'name': '129.22.208.53', 'resource_fixed': {'SSD': True}, 'resource_slots': {'CPU': [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63], 'GPU': [0, 1], 'RAM': [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96]}, 'ssh_str': 'whuang@129.22.208.53', 'title': 'Worker node 129.22.208.53', 'type': 'node', 'worker_bin_path': '/data/Programs/cryosparc/cryosparc_worker/bin/cryosparcw'}, {'cache_path': '/data/cryosparc_dir', 'cache_quota_mb': None, 'cache_reserve_mb': 10000, 'desc': None, 'gpus': [{'id': 0, 'mem': 11544035328, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 1, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 2, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 3, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 4, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 5, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 6, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}, {'id': 7, 'mem': 11546394624, 'name': 'NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti'}], 'hostname': 'c109864.phrm.CWRU.Edu', 'lane': 'pp2a_4u', 'monitor_port': None, 'name': 'c109864.phrm.CWRU.Edu', 'resource_fixed': {'SSD': True}, 'resource_slots': {'CPU': [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63], 'GPU': [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7], 'RAM': [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96]}, 'ssh_str': 'whuang@pp2a', 'title': 'Worker node c109864.phrm.CWRU.Edu', 'type': 'node', 'worker_bin_path': '/data/Programs/cryosparc_08242023/cryosparc_worker/bin/cryosparcw'}]
(base) [whuang@tayloret ~]$ ls -al /taylorNAS3/cryosparc_projects/4U_PP2A/P46/J334/
total 37
drwxrwxr-x. 3 whuang whuang 5 May 9 04:56 .
drwxrwxr-x. 341 whuang whuang 347 May 9 04:56 ..
-rw-rw-r--. 1 whuang whuang 18 May 9 04:56 events.bson
drwxrwxr-x. 2 whuang whuang 2 May 9 04:56 gridfs_data
-rw-rw-r--. 1 whuang whuang 61359 May 9 04:56 job.json