[Mauiusers] Requesting a given number of processors

[Thomas HAMEL]

Hi,

Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 15:40 +0200, Jan Ploski a écrit :
> mauiusers-bounces at supercluster.org schrieb am 09/28/2007 03:08:27 PM:
> 
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Jan Ploski wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a way to tell Maui "I want 100 processors" without telling
> > > it "I want 25 nodes with 4 processors each"?
> > 
> > In qmgr you have to do:
> > 
> > set server resources_available.nodect = 100
> > 
> > It's a kludge to make nodes be valid up to that number, and then Maui 
> > can use that as the number of CPU's that you want.
> 
> Chris,
> 
> I did change it as you describe (and restarted maui, pbs_server just for 
> sure):
> 
> Qmgr: list server @srvgrid01
> Server srvgrid01.offis.uni-oldenburg.de
>         server_state = Active
>         scheduling = True
>         total_jobs = 148
>         state_count = Transit:0 Queued:64 Held:0 Waiting:0 Running:84 
> Exiting:0 
>         managers = xxx
>         operators = xxx
>         default_queue = dgiseq
>         log_events = 511
>         mail_from = adm
>         resources_available.nodect = 188
>         resources_assigned.ncpus = 0
>         resources_assigned.nodect = 94
>         scheduler_iteration = 600
>         node_check_rate = 150
>         tcp_timeout = 6
>         pbs_version = 2.1.6
> 
> However, it still doesn't allocate correctly. 


The nodect parameter must be set in both queue and server.

For your information, this is in the torque FAQ :
http://www.clusterresources.com/wiki/doku.php?id=torque:10.1_troubleshooting#resavail

Regards.

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