<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Glen Beane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen.beane@gmail.com">glen.beane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Ibad Kureshi U0850037<br>
<<a href="mailto:U0850037@hud.ac.uk">U0850037@hud.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I was wondering is someone could tell me how to adjust the step size in a job array. We are running Torque 2.5.7 with the PBS_SCHEDD on a small cluster and our users want to submit arrays.<br>
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> One the SGE and the Moab/Torque based systems<br>
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> $ -t 1-20:2<br>
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> or<br>
><br>
> #PBS -t 1-20:2<br>
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> respectively, gives them 10 jobs with even ID numbers.<br>
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> How can this be done with Torque? It throws out "qsub: Bad Job Array Request" error<br>
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> Have not been able to find much literature on this.<br>
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> Thanks<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>this is not currently supported, but it is a great feature request.<br>
<br>
unfortunately the only option would be to explicitly specify each array ID:<br>
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#PBS -t 2,4,6,8,10 ...20</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Or:</div><div><br></div><div> qsub -t `seq -s, 2 2 20` pbsfile.txt</div><div><br></div><div>in case you don't want to type all the numbers.</div><div><br></div>
<div>--andy </div></div>