On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 08:28:59AM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:57:51PM +0100, Tim Cutts wrote: > > > > NQS derivatives are all hopeless, IMHO. They perform host selection at > > job submission time rather than job execution time, which is a really > > broken idea. They're fine for controlling queues on a single large > > parallel machine, but they're no good for managing clusters. > > DQS determines nodes at execution time. GNQS (according to the > documentation) does as well. Use -l, not -q, to specify node requirements. > qsub -q xx will run a job only on the specified queue, but that's what it's > for.
My apologies. My knowledge of GNQS must be hopelessly out of date. It certainly didn't do that (or if it was meant do, it didn't work) when I last tried it. Tim.
