[Moabusers] node lock consumables

[Brock Palen]

Awsome thank you very much!

Brock Palen
Center for Advanced Computing
brockp at umich.edu
(734)936-1985


On Jul 12, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Douglas Wightman wrote:

> Although Moab will understand something like the following:
>
> nyx801 UPDATETIME=1183740060 STATE=idle ARES=cplex:16 CRES=cplex:20
>
> You will probably want to change the RESOURCETYPE from "LICENSE" to
> "COMPUTE" on the corresponding RMCFG line.  The reason for this is  
> that
> Moab will automatically share resources from a LICENSE type resource
> manager with all nodes.  In your case you do not want Moab to "share"
> the license with other nodes, as it is locked specifically to  
> "nyx801".
>
> You will also need to add a NODECFG[nyx801] PARTITION=<par> line to  
> the
> moab.cfg to force the node back into the other partition with all the
> other nodes, otherwise Moab will automatically put the node in its own
> partition named after the resource manager.
>
> Additions have been made to the docs to show support for "software".
>
> - Douglas
>
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 12:42 -0400, Brock Palen wrote:
>> Documentation request:
>>
>> I appears if you make a node locked license like so:
>>
>> NODECFG[nyx801] GRES=norman:4
>>
>> You can request it with torque like so:
>>
>> #PBS -l nodes=1:ppn=1,software=norman:1
>>
>> Just like any floating consumable resource This is wonderful, its
>> less ambiguous to use  'software'  vs 'gres'  (though gres is great
>> for strange things like 'dvd'  'bandwidth'  etc like in your examples
>> on page:
>>
>> http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/
>> 12.4consumablegres.shtml
>>
>> I think other users would like to know that you can use
>> the ,software=software:copies  syntax also.
>>
>> Just a suggestion!
>>
>> Also what if a I have a 'pool'  of nodes that are licensed for
>> software and that software is managed by the license manager,  can I
>> use the syntax
>>
>> GLOBAL UPDATETIME=1183740060 STATE=idle ARES=cplex:16 CRES=cplex:20
>>
>> And replace the 'GLOBAL'  node with   'nyx801'  ?   Would moab
>> understand that?  Thanks!
>>
>> Brock Palen
>> Center for Advanced Computing
>> brockp at umich.edu
>> (734)936-1985
>>
>>
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