[torquedev] Mixing Torque 2.110 and 2.3.0 on a cluster ?

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Glen Beane" <glen.beane at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would test this on a couple test systems first.. Maybe setup a
> reservation on a few nodes and upgrade the moms, then see if they can
> still talk to pbs_server, then try submitting a job to them, and
> finally submitting a job that runs on 2.1 and 2.3 nodes.

Yeah, might look at using our small test cluster for this, it's
IA-32 rather than AMD64, but it should work!

> The job structure has changed slightly between 2.1 and 2.3. I need to
> verify this wouldn't cause any problems - especially witha 2.3 server
> and 2.1 moms!

Interesting, yes, a very good point!

Presumably there'd be similar concerns if we held back
on the pbs_server and just waiting for all the pbs_mom's
to upgrade to 2.3.

cheers!
Chris
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