On 10 August 2011 18:53, Christopher Kunz <[email protected]> wrote: > And furthermore, what kind of "modules" does the user talk about?
Presumably Modules[1], with a capital "M". The trouble is that Modules itself is a software component, sure it might be fairly common on production HPC systems, but it would be too specific to wrap that functionality. Perhaps a better idea would be to have a generic framework for customising the operation of GRAM jobmanagers - if a job specifies an extension and the jobmanager was built to understand that extension, presto. Similar to multi-job handling. GRAM already does something like this to support LRM specific features, but Modules is something that shouldn't be exposed to the LRM and could probably be handled generically when building the job script. [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/modules/ -- Blair Bethwaite Researcher, Developer, SysAdmin, Nimrod and Grid support specialist Monash eScience and Grid Engineering Lab (http://www.messagelab.monash.edu.au/) +61 3-9903-2800
