Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 at 11:56, Neal Becker wrote: > My purpose is to queue up a bunch of tasks > #cpus, and have #cpus run at > a time in parallel. > So if I have 120 jobs to run, and 32 cores, I want to queue them all up > and run 32 in parallel at a time. > Or, maybe I need to set --ncpus=16 so

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread Neal Becker
My purpose is to queue up a bunch of tasks > #cpus, and have #cpus run at a time in parallel. So if I have 120 jobs to run, and 32 cores, I want to queue them all up and run 32 in parallel at a time. Or, maybe I need to set --ncpus=16 so schedule 16 parallel jobs instead of 32 (my scheduler is

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread John Mellor
On 2022-02-04 09:04, Neal Becker wrote: After this discussion, I needed a simple batch scheduling system.  I tried installing and starting condor on F35.  Never saw so many selinux problems.  Couldn't dnf remove it fast enough. After a bit of searching, I found the system I wrote 11 years

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-02-04 Thread Neal Becker
After this discussion, I needed a simple batch scheduling system. I tried installing and starting condor on F35. Never saw so many selinux problems. Couldn't dnf remove it fast enough. After a bit of searching, I found the system I wrote 11 years ago. https://pypi.org/project/batch-queue/ I

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-26 Thread Fred Erickson
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:59:23 -0500 Neal Becker wrote: > I've needed this over the years but all the ones I've seen appeared > much too complex for my simple use case. I ended up writing my own > using pyxmlrpc. Unfortunately haven't used it for years and don't > know if I could find it again

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-26 Thread Neal Becker
I've needed this over the years but all the ones I've seen appeared much too complex for my simple use case. I ended up writing my own using pyxmlrpc. Unfortunately haven't used it for years and don't know if I could find it again (was uploaded to pypi at one time). Are any of these batch

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-26 Thread Matthew Miller
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:31:25AM -0700, linux guy wrote: > Is there anything simpler than Torque ? Yeah, these schedulers do get kind of complex. You might be happy with the simple "batch" command. On the other hand, if this is your field, it's probably worth your time to learn a bit about the

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread Tom Horsley
This is a simple shell script I wrote a long time ago which is invoked by a CGI script on a local web page and notices files that show up in a queue directory. #!/bin/bash # This script is started by the setuid program start-queue so that the # CGI script which makes queue entries can have the

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 13:40, linux guy wrote: > Hi people. > > I'm using a server to run a bunch of simulations. By bunch I mean > hundreds. Each simulation takes from 10 minutes to 10 hours to run. All > of the simulations are run from the command line. Every day I generate > more

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread James Szinger
On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:31:25 -0700 linux guy wrote: > Is there anything simpler than Torque ? There is the standard UNIX batch command. It is about as simple as can be. Certainly much simpler than the VMS and MVS batch systems back in the day. There also seem to be several Node.JS batch

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 12:19 PM Cameron Simpson wrote: > If you can define a task in a single line of text I can define my tasks in a single command line. > you could run > something like this on the server: > > tail -f task_list.txt | while read -r spec; do run the task from > $spec;

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Thought: I'll write a simple one in nodejs and make the user interface a webpage. That way I can log into the webpage from anywhere and check on the status of my simulations as well as add and delete them. I'm not running a cluster. Just my little ole server. Thoughts ?

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21Jan2022 10:39, linux guy wrote: >I'm using a server to run a bunch of simulations. By bunch I mean >hundreds. Each simulation takes from 10 minutes to 10 hours to run. All >of the simulations are run from the command line. Every day I generate >more simulation cases. > >I'm looking for a

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Is there anything simpler than Torque ? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Thanks for the replies, I'll look into the mentioned packages. I have never heard of Torque. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct:

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Jan 21, 2022, at 13:08, Roger Heflin wrote: > > In the past I have used this one: > one called Torque that is in the repo. It has a client piece and a > server piece. You would have to define the queue such that it would > only run a single job at a time and then submit them in order.

Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread Roger Heflin
In the past I have used this one: one called Torque that is in the repo. It has a client piece and a server piece. You would have to define the queue such that it would only run a single job at a time and then submit them in order. On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 11:40 AM linux guy wrote: > > Hi

Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

2022-01-21 Thread linux guy
Hi people. I'm using a server to run a bunch of simulations. By bunch I mean hundreds. Each simulation takes from 10 minutes to 10 hours to run. All of the simulations are run from the command line. Every day I generate more simulation cases. I'm looking for a method/system/app that I can