Thank you, Sir. I have already completed the setting up portion (via qconf -mc) and modified the submission script to include the line:
#$ -l excl=true I just wasn't sure if a non-exclusive job would get dispatched to the same node that had an exclusive job running. But your answer clarified it. Best regards, g -- Gowtham, PhD Information Technology Services Adj. Assistant Professor, Physics Michigan Technological University (906) 487/3593 http://it.mtu.edu On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, William Hay wrote: | | | | On 5 April 2013 12:47, Gowtham <[email protected]> wrote: | | While reading through the Grid Engine documentation, I learnt that any given (set) of compute | node(s) can be set up accept exclusive access request (Section 3.1.3.14 in the link below): | | http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24901_01/doc.62/e21978/management.htm | | Suppose that a job was dispatched to a free node that was configured for exclusive access. | Does this mean that no (S)GE will not dispatch another to the same node until this exclusive | job has been completed? | | Best regards, | g | | The job has to request exclusive access as well. To enable this you define a boolean consumable with | RELOP EXCL in the complex configuration and associate it with the host object. A job that requests | that consumable will be routed to such hosts and have exclusive access preventing other jobs from using | said host. Jobs that don't request the consumable will still be able to use and share the host when | there isn't an exclusive job there though. Read the relop section of the nice man page: | http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/htmlman/htmlman5/complex.html | | | -- | Gowtham, PhD | Information Technology Services | Adj. Assistant Professor, Physics | Michigan Technological University | | (906) 487/3593 | http://it.mtu.edu | | _______________________________________________ | users mailing list | [email protected] | https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users | | | | |
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