On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:54:12PM -0200, Leandro alleged: > Hi, > > Sorry by the cross post, but I'm looking for a solution for a problem I have > with Torque with and without Maui. > > What I need is choose nodes by CPUs in a simpler way than "-l nodes=X:ppn=Y" > way. What I'm looking for is a "-l cpus=X" and let the resource > manager/scheduler choose the nodes, packing the tasks in the nodes with more > CPUs. > > I'm testing a heterogeneous cluster, where I have nodes with 2 CPUs single > core and nodes with 2 CPUs dual core (4 CPUs). This test cluster have 3 > nodes with 4 CPUs and 2 nodes with 2 CPUs. > > All the jobs we run here are called automatically by an application, which > calls some scripts to make the job on the cluster. If I need 16 CPUs I don't > see any easy way to make a generic script, using some standard parameters, > to create a "-l nodes=3:ppn=4+2:ppn=2" line :-/ > > The easy way is to have something like "-l cpus=16" to the previous example, > but it is possible? > > Today we are using dual core CPUs but what is gonna happen when we use quad > core CPUs? I see an ugly picture to my job allocation task... > > Thanks in advance for any help,
Sorry I'm late here. You will need maui/moab to make this work correctly. But just set the server's node_pack attribute to true. _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
