Chris,

That makes sense. What kind of configurability are you looking for?

Lane

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Chris Dyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would it be possible to have some kind of flag that turns this on or
> off? For a variety of reasons I've been working with the same software
> in a bunch of different environments that are similar (but just
> different enough) that I found it useful to make the parts that deal
> with the cluster sort of configurable... I don't know the architecture
> of moses-parallel.pl at all, so I can only guess whether this makes
> sense or not.
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Suzy Howlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I use TORQUE, which I've found has had some differences with SGE (in
> > particular, I had to use the 'old-sge' flags to get the sync
> > workaround), but it looks like TORQUE has a -t flag that "Specifies the
> > task ids of a job array."  Unfortunately I'm still new to using the
> > cluster, so I don't know precisely what it does or how it might differ
> > from SGE's.
> >
> > (TORQUE qsub:
> > http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs21/commands/qsub.shtml )
> >
> > Suzy
> >
> > On 15/12/10 8:44 AM, Hieu Hoang wrote:
> >> I think it's a good idea. The current implementation no longer works on
> >> our  cluster. Array is possibly a better way than sync jobs
> >>
> >> Hieu
> >> Sent from my flying horse
> >>
> >> On 14 Dec 2010, at 09:12 PM, Lane Schwartz <[email protected]
> >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was wondering if any consideration has been given to using qsub's
> >>> job array functionality in moses-parallel.pl <http://moses-parallel.pl
> >.
> >>> Using the qsub -t flag, jobs can be tied together, so that if the
> >>> parent job is killed via qdel, all of the children are also killed.
> >>> Currently, if a parallel job needs to be killed, the children must be
> >>> manually deleted. This is OK if you only have one parallel job
> >>> running, but if you have many, and you haven't overridden the default
> >>> job name, things become hairier.
> >>> I would potentially be willing to make the change, but I wanted to
> >>> hear people's thoughts on the matter first.
> >>> Cheers,
> >>> Lane
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