Lane Schwartz wrote:

> If you don't mind my asking, I'm curious as to why.

Fear of change. (:

Basically, I haven't used array jobs at all, and I'm not sure our  
installation is set up for them.  However, if everyone thinks that's  
highly unlikely, and array jobs are a very standard thing in SGE, then  
there's no need for a proliferation of config switches, and I withdraw  
my +1 cents.

- JB

> In the current script, for a job split N ways, moses-parallel.pl  
> creates N temporary bash scripts (each of which will call Moses on  
> one part of the data), then launches each of these scripts via a  
> separate invocation of qsub. This results in N unique qsub jobs,  
> each with its own job id.
>
> In my proposed change, moses-parallel.pl would create 1 temporary  
> bash script, then would launch this one script via one call to qsub.  
> The call to qsub would use the flag -t 1-N. This would result in N  
> qsub jobs, each of which would share a common parent task ID. (You  
> can still identify child jobs, since each array child task also has  
> its own child task, ranging from 1 to N.)
>
> Everything else would stay exactly as it is now. If there's a  
> legitimate reason to maintain both, then I'm open to doing so, but I  
> don't know any reason why the current method would be preferable to  
> the proposed method.
>
> Lane
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:16 PM, John Burger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lane Schwartz wrote:
>
> John,
>
> I assume you are saying that you like the current qsub submission  
> mechanism used by moses-parallel.pl, and would like any changes to  
> allow the script to keep working exactly how it is now. Is that  
> correct?
>
> Yes - apologies for my new media terseness. (:
>
> - JB
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:30 AM, John Burger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Dyer wrote:
>
> Would it be possible to have some kind of flag that turns this on or  
> off?
>
> +1, please.
>
> - John D. Burger
>  MITRE
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