(CCing the list - you don't want to miss the answers from Reuti & other experienced Grid Engine experts on the list!)
1) You can set "slots" to anything - as long as it is a natural number. It can be greater than the number of processors in the server. 2) I don't fully understand this "environment server" setup - is it a process running on the local machine, or a remote process providing Monte Carlo simulation as a Service (MCSaaS :-D )?? And if it is a local process, then what is the issue of starting it by Grid Engine, so that resource accounting would work as expected?? Rayson On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Earl Lazarus <[email protected]> wrote: > But doesn't it come down to the slots available on a host. Doesn't the host > have a slot limit equal to the number of CPUs? If I fill them with > "environment servers", there is no room for my simulations to execute. > I'm clearly missing something important in how SGE can be make to work. > > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Rayson Ho <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Earl Lazarus <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Bottom line...I need to pre-position some executables on each host >> > without >> > consuming slots. >> >> How about setting up queues for these kinds of jobs that don't really >> consume much resources?? You can set an arbitrary large number of >> slots for each queue, but with a low job resource limit. >> >> > Note that I tried to kick them off in a script of the form: >> > >> > sppe & >> > exit >> > >> > but Grid Engine monitors jobs placed in the background and kills them! >> >> As soon as the job script finishes, Grid Engine kills the job. This is >> the designed behavior. >> >> Rayson >> >> > >> > The possibility of avoiding Grid Engine entirely and kicking them off >> > with >> > rsh/ssh is something we want to avoid. >> > >> > earl >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
