[Moabusers] Running a moab simulation

wightman wightman at clusterresources.com
Mon Oct 9 13:13:26 MDT 2006


The workload trace entries are incorrect.  Where did you obtain these
records?  Did Moab output them?  

- Douglas

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:52 -0700, Corby wrote:
> I'm trying to run a simulation on moab, but every time I run moab it
> just exits right away and the job I scheduled in my workload trace
> doesn't seem to have run.
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to set up the resource and workload traces, and
> what fields are essential to getting a simulation to actually run at
> all (I can then worry about making it reflect the hardware and
> everything I want to simulate later, but first I just need it to
> work). 
> 
> My workload trace just has these two entries:
> 
>         00:00:20_01/01/00 946710020 job 1234 jobcreate 1 1 root root
>         86400 \ 
>         Completed [batch:1] 946710010 0 0 ethernet x86_64 Linux >= 0
>         >= 0 \
>         - 0 1 -1 - - - /opt/moab/tracefiles/testprogram - -1 0
>         [DEFAULT] \
>         1 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 0.0 - - - - - -
>         00:00:30_01/01/00 946710030 job 1234 jobstart 1 1 root root
>         86400 \ 
>         Completed [batch:1] 946710010 0 0 ethernet x86_64 Linux >= 0
>         >= 0 \
>         - 0 1 -1 - - - /opt/moab/tracefiles/testprogram - -1 0
>         [DEFAULT] \
>         1 0 0 0 0 0 - - - - - - - 0.0 - - - - - -
> 
> and my resource trace just has these: 
> 
>         COMPUTENODE AVAILABLE 1 Node001 PBS 27580 6442 100000 2 -1 -1
>         -1 Linux \
>         x86_64 [NONE] [batch:1] [ethernet] 1.0 [NONE] [NONE] [NONE]
>         COMPUTENODE AVAILABLE 1 Node002 PBS 27580 6442 100000 2 -1 -1
>         -1 Linux \
>         x86_64 [NONE] [batch:1] [ethernet] 1.0 [NONE] [NONE] [NONE]
> 
> and my moab.cfg:
> 
>         SCHEDCFG[Moab]        SERVER=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:xx
>         MODE=SIMULATION
>         ADMINCFG[1]        USERS=root,root
>         
>         SIMRESOURCETRACEFILE  tracefiles/resource.trace
>         SIMWORKLOADTRACEFILE  tracefiles/workload.trace
>         SIMSTOPITERATION  0 
>         SIMSTARTTIME 00:00:00_01/01/00
>         SIMSTOPTIME 12:00:00_01/01/00
>         
>         RMCFG[base]          TYPE=PBS
> 
> 
> Are there any obvious mistakes I'm making?
> 
> Thank you for any time you can spare to help someone new to Moab, 
> -Corby Ziesman
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