[Moabusers] Combining floating and generic licenses for the same software ?

[csamuel at vpac.org]

> Hi folks,
>
[...]
> My thought was that I would need to assign a GRES to
> the node which has the same name as the names that
> returned via FlexLM, but I see odd things are happening.
>
> If I submit a test job doing:
>
> echo 'sleep 60; hostname' | qsub -l software=PA_MSC_NASTRAN -l nodes=1
>
> then Moab reserves *two* nodes for it, one being the
> system with the node locked GRES and the other being
> the next available node.  But the hostname runs on the
> *wrong* node, i.e. not the one with the license I requested.

I can confirm that this only seems to happen if I request a
license that is available both through a defined GRES and through
FlexLM.

They are running Moab 5.1.0p2, so I'm going to upgrade them to
5.1.0p6 and see if that helps at all..

cheers,
Chris