[torquedev] nodes, procs, tpn and ncpus

[Bas van der Vlies]

On 09-06-10 16:00, Glen Beane wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Glen Beane<glen.beane at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Ken Nielson
>> <knielson at adaptivecomputing.com>  wrote:
>>> Currently when TORQUE is asked to run a job with qrun it interprets the nodes=x as only a single node. Glen, if you look at listelem and node_spec you will see this is the case. TORQUE also ignores procs and ncpus.
>>
>>
>> If I stop Moab on my cluster and run jobs with qrun nodes=x is not
>> interpreted as a single node.  It is basically interpreted as
>> nodes=x:ppn=1
>>
>> gbeane at wulfgar:~>  echo "sleep 60" | qsub -l nodes=4,walltime=00:02:00
>> 69795.wulfgar.jax.org
>> gbeane at wulfgar:~>  qrun 69795
>> gbeane at wulfgar:~>  qstat -f 69795
>> ...
>>     exec_host = cs-prod-6/0+cs-prod-5/0+cs-prod-4/0+cs-prod-3/0
>> ...
>>     Resource_List.neednodes = 4
>>     Resource_List.nodect = 4
>>     Resource_List.nodes = 4
>>
>
> by the way,  I was just looking through an old OpenPBS manual and from
> what I could tell if you requested a number of nodes without
> specifying ppn you would be given complete nodes. I don't have a
> problem with TORQUE assuming ppn=1 if it is not specified though.

 From the openpbs v2_2.ers.pdf manual:
{{{
* nodes:  Number and/or type of nodes to be reserved for exclusive use by 
the job.
. To ask for 12 nodes of any type: -l nodes=12
. To ask for 2 processors on each of four nodes:
   -l nodes=4:ppn=2
. To ask for 4 processors on one node:
   -l nodes=1:ppn=4
}}}


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