Thank you. That is the solution. I think I had the moab syntax for singlejob mixed with the maui scheduler.
-----Original Message----- From: Niels Carl W. Hansen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:45 AM To: Sarah Mulholland Subject: Re: [Mauiusers] nodeaccess policy - does it work on a job by job bases? hi Sarah Try: qsub -W x="NACCESSPOLICY:SINGLEJOB" -l nodes=8:ppn=1 $myjob /NCWH On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Sarah Mulholland wrote: > According to the maui docs, the node access policy can be overridden on a > job-by-job basis using the naccesspolicy (described at the link below). I'm > able to submit my job with a singlejob node access policy, but it appears > that maui is letting other jobs onto the nodes. Does this feature of maui > work? > > http://www.clusterresources.com/products/maui/docs/5.3nodeaccess.shtml > > I have a cluster of 8 nodes with 2 processors each. The jobnodematchpolicy > is exactnode, so I get 8 processors on different nodes when I submitting with > qsub > > qsub -l nodes=8:ppn=1,naccesspolicy=singlejob $myjob > > Afterwards I submit another job with > > qsub -l nodes=8:ppn=1 $mynextjob > > I expect the 2nd job to wait because all 8 nodes are running with a singlejob > access policy. Instead this job gets 1 processor per node and starts running > right away. > > Am I misunderstanding the nodeaccess policy? > > Sarah > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Niels Carl W. Hansen Centre for Scientific Computing in Aarhus - CSCAA University of Aarhus E-mail: [email protected] Ny Munkegade, Bldg. 1520 Tel: +45 8942 3201 DK-8000 Aarhus C Mobile: +45 6020 2635 Danmark Web: www.cscaa.dk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list [email protected] http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
