On Aug 10, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Blair Bethwaite wrote: > 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/
We've discussed some work to make it easier to add site-specific patches like this to the GRAM LRMs at GW11, but it's not been worked on yet. Joe
