[Moabusers] software license management

[Steven A. DuChene]

You have to be kidding? It uses soemthing like 3.14159265358979 licenses?
Are the licenses parceled out by flexlm or not/ If they are can you pass along
the output from an lmstat against that flelm license server?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Guillaume Alleon <guillaume.alleon at laposte.net>
>Sent: Oct 4, 2006 3:55 PM
>To: "Steven A. DuChene" <linux-clusters at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: [Moabusers] software license management
>
>Is there some more experience on the list with software like abaqus 
>where the number of licenses is something like a complex formula
>that gives non integer number of tokens. Is this working the same with 
>moab ?
>
>Guillaume
>Steven A. DuChene a �crit :
>> We have users doing this on a regular basis. The syntax they are using is:
>>
>> qsub -l nodes=$_RUN_NODES:ppn=2,walltime=$_RUN_TIME:00:00 -W x=GRES:fluent+$_SERPROC,fluent-par+$_PARPROC some_fluent_batch_job_script
>>
>> This is a snipet from a larger script, thus the $variables
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>   
>>> From: Josh Butikofer <josh at clusterresources.com>
>>> Sent: Oct 4, 2006 1:45 PM
>>> To: Lloyd Brown <somewhere_or_other at byu.edu>
>>> Cc: moabusers at supercluster.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Moabusers] software license management
>>>
>>> Lloyd,
>>>
>>> I believe the format is:
>>>
>>> qsub -l nodes=10:ppn=2,software=fluent+1,fluent-par+10 cmdscript.txt
>>>
>>> I'll update the docs to show examples of multiple license requests like this.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Joshua Butikofer
>>> Cluster Resources, Inc.
>>>
>>> josh at clusterresources.com
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>>>
>>> Lloyd Brown wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> In the Moab documentation (section 13.7), it talks about setting up
>>>> resource managers to monitor license managers, etc.  We've gotten that
>>>> set up, and 'mdiag -n' has output like this:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> NODE[GLOBAL] Config Res     fluent: 8  fluent-nox: 8  fluent-par: 24  fluent-post: 4  fluentall: 8  gambit: 8  geom-trans: 8
>>>>> NODE[GLOBAL] Dedicated Res  ---
>>>>> NODE[GLOBAL] Available Res  fluent: 8  fluent-nox: 8  fluent-par: 23  fluent-post: 4  fluentall: 7  gambit: 8  geom-trans: 8
>>>>>         
>>>> So, it looks it's being monitored correctly.  However, when it describes
>>>> how to request the resources (see
>>>> http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/13.7licensemanagement.shtml#requesting),
>>>> it only shows how to request one type of license.  So, for example, what
>>>> syntax do I pass to torque's qsub when I want to reserve 1 fluent
>>>> license, and 10 fluent-par licenses?  I'm guessing it'd be something
>>>> like this:
>>>>
>>>>       
>>>>> qsub -l nodes=10:ppn=2,software=fluent:1,fluent-par:10 cmdscript.txt
>>>>>         
>>>> Can someone verify this syntax, or if I'm wrong, tell me what it should be?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Lloyd Brown
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