Am 10.07.2014 um 19:51 schrieb Bob Tupper:

> I have a requirement that I'm not sure how to fulfill and was hoping to get 
> some suggestions.
> 
> each job requires
> 8 cores on a single machine,  1 license and 128G of RAM        (most of my 
> execution hosts are 16 cores 256G RAM)
> 4 or more simulations jobs that must run at nearly the same time on any 
> execution host.

So the goal is to use >32 cores in total? You could also try to submit a 
wrapper-job which grabs several exechosts exclusively, and then looking at the 
provided $PE_HOSTFILE to spawn the particular simulations using `qrsh -inherit 
...` on the granted exechosts from this wrapper-job.

-- Reuti


> if the resources to run all 4 or more jobs are not available or will not 
> become available shortly, all of the jobs should pend until resources become 
> available.
> 
> since these are very big jobs and must run at some point, how can I make sure 
> that the resources do become available at the same time with out waisting 
> resources?
> 
> Any input would be very helpful and appreciated. 
> Thanks
> -Bob
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