[Moabusers] Running a moab simulation

[wightman]

Workload traces are generated automatically by Moab during normal
execution.  If you take a look in the "stats" directory you will see
"event" files.  Here is what a valid entry looks like:

10:33:39 1160411619 job      754          JOBEND         1   1 wightman
wightman     600 Completed   [batch:1] 1160411014 1160411014 1160411014
1160411619         -      -      - >=    0M >=      0M          -
1160411014   1    0 -:- [RESTARTABLE]         -               -    -   0
163.56       pbs      1      0M      0M      0M         0 2140000000
maka pbs - - [DEFAULT] - - 0.00 - - - - -

(all one 1 line)

- Douglas

On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 12:35 -0700, Corby wrote:
> I was trying to follow the format from
> http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/16.4.0simulations.shtml but realized quickly something was wrong.  The problem is that I couldn't figure out what exactly.  There are so many fields so there's a lot of variables when trying to figure out what part of it was wrong. 
> 
> I wasn't sure how the workload trace should work.  In particular I
> wasn't sure if I needed to do jobcreate and then jobstart in order to
> make moab actually simulate the execution of a program.
> 
> Because of the setup right now that I'm working with, I wasn't able to
> simply have Moab output some accounting records. 
> 
> -Corby Ziesman
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/9/06, wightman <wightman at clusterresources.com> wrote: 
>         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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