[Moabusers] Running a moab simulation

[Corby]

So when I want to run a simulation, do I just need a JOBCREATE and then Moab
will do a JOBSTART and JOBEND as it would if it were actually running?




On 10/9/06, wightman <wightman at clusterresources.com> wrote:
>
> 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.shtmlbut 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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> >
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