On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Charles wrote:
charles, the even better solution would be to get rid of LSF. it is creating a lot of problems with typical "cluster usage" _and_ costs a lot of money. PBS/Torque+Maui don't cost you zip and work much better. unfortunately, there are too many sysadmins around that don't understand that something that costs a lot can be worse than something that costs nothing... :-( cheers, axel. CC> Thanks Lorenzo, CC> CC> I found a easy solution. CC> CC> Basically it is to use -i tag of LSF rather than use -in tag for pw, CC> bands, pp, etc. This also works for gipaw. CC> CC> Maybe this can be added as another note in the user guide for people CC> have to struggle with the input redirection. CC> CC> This works for me with mpi+lsf system CC> CC> Charles CC> CC> Lorenzo Paulatto wrote: CC> > On Ven, Aprile 25, 2008 05:41, Charles Chen wrote: CC> >> So, the gipaw.x does not read the input file. CC> > CC> > There is no -in nor -input option in gipaw.x, at the moment the only way CC> > to feed it the input is via standard input. CC> > CC> >> Is there something I need to specify when I make gipaw.x, so that it can CC> >> read the input file with -in tag? CC> > CC> > Yes, you have to program it ;-). CC> > CC> >> Or this is a problem purely related to LSF? CC> > CC> > Maybe you can still use mpi + lsf whith input redirection. It usually CC> > works, but you need the input file on all nodes. (You can create it in the CC> > input script using the "cat << eof ... eof" trick as in the examples) CC> > CC> > regards CC> > CC> CC> _______________________________________________ CC> Pw_forum mailing list CC> Pw_forum at pwscf.org CC> http://www.democritos.it/mailman/listinfo/pw_forum CC> -- ======================================================================= Axel Kohlmeyer akohlmey at cmm.chem.upenn.edu http://www.cmm.upenn.edu Center for Molecular Modeling -- University of Pennsylvania Department of Chemistry, 231 S.34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 tel: 1-215-898-1582, fax: 1-215-573-6233, office-tel: 1-215-898-5425 ======================================================================= If you make something idiot-proof, the universe creates a better idiot.
