no problem about adding this to clustermanagers.jl. just one question: is
that repo still maintained? it seemed there was very little activity there
recently. i can submit a PR there if that's the preferred solution.


On 28 August 2014 00:38, Stefan Karpinski <ste...@karpinski.org> wrote:

> That's cool. It would be great if we can extract the parts of this that
> are not specific to the particular system you're running on and generic to
> PBS and added it to the ClusterManagers package. Thanks also for reporting
> your success story – it's always nice to hear them, regardless of magnitude
> :-)
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> after bugging this list long enough with questions about how to get Julia
>> running in parallel on a Torque/PBS managed cluster I thought I'd share my
>> experience with the list. I realise that by julia standards this is a
>> rather modest achievement, but I'd been happy to come across something like
>> this post a while ago. :-)
>>
>> So, there's nothing special about the cluster being PBS managed (rather
>> than SGE or whatever), I just found that each system is as idiosyncratic as
>> the sysadmin person who set it up (starting from the format of nodenames to
>> scheduler options to how environment variables get forwarded into a node,
>> etc etc), so it always takes a fair amount of hacking to get something
>> running. It's pretty low quality hacking I would say, but it's painful on a
>> cluster. You basically need to adapt the functions in iridis_launcher.jl in
>> the below repo to your system. Very few of the issues actually had anything
>> to do with Julia itself, so I tried to explain as much about the
>> environment as possible. Again, just sharing this in the hope someone out
>> there is trying to achieve something similar may find this useful:
>>
>> https://github.com/floswald/parallelTest/tree/master/julia/iridis
>>
>>
>>
>

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