[torqueusers] Hogging Nodes

[Prakash Velayutham]

What is the program you are running? May be it already supports this.

Prakash

On Mar 20, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Sarah Mulholland wrote:

> There are a lot of great suggestions, but none seem to fit our  
> situation exactly.  Yes, we only want to affect the usage in  
> question (a particular program or two). In the general case we want  
> all processors on all nodes to be available.
>
> The ppn=2 solution might be the best approach if we could write a  
> little bit of software to make half the jobs do nothing.
>
> Thank you to everyone who replied.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth.Williams at csiro.au [mailto:Gareth.Williams at csiro.au]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:07 PM
> To: Sarah Mulholland
> Cc: torqueusers at supercluster.org
> Subject: RE: [torqueusers] Hogging Nodes
>
>> From: Prakash Velayutham [mailto:prakash.velayutham at cchmc.org]
>> Sent: Friday, 20 March 2009 1:45 AM
>> To: Sarah Mulholland
>> Cc: torqueusers at supercluster.org
>> Subject: Re: [torqueusers] Hogging Nodes
>>
>> May be
>>
>> NODEACCESSPOLICY SINGLEJOB
>>
>> will do?
>>
>> Prakash
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Sarah Mulholland wrote:
>>
>>
>> I sent this question to the maui group over a week ago, but there  
>> was no
>> answer.  Perhaps this question is more appropriate to the torque  
>> group.
>>
>> I am running the maui scheduler 3.2.6 patch level 16 with torque  
>> 2.1.6.  I
>> am looking for a way to submit a job on some number of nodes, say  
>> 10.  In
>> addition to running on 10 nodes, I want exclusive use of those  
>> nodes.  Is
>> there a property I can set to allow that kind of scheduling?   So  
>> far I'm
>> submitting jobs with
>>
>>            "-l nodes=10:ppn=1"
>>
>> Specifically I have a job that needs to run on 10 processors all on
>> different nodes.  We have two processors per node.  The  
>> JOBNODEMATCHPOLICY
>> EXACTNODE makes sure our job gets what it needs, but I want to  
>> prevent
>> anything else from running on the second processor of the 10 nodes.
>>
>> Is there a "don't-share-the-nodes" modifier that I can set on the job
>> submission?  In the maui.cfg?
>
> Hi Sarah,
>
> You seem to have the solution now, but this will globally affect all  
> jobs and this may not be desirable if you have a mixed workload.   
> You could use the softer approach of submitting the jobs in question  
> with
> "-l nodes=10:ppn=2" and then just only running 10 processes.  You  
> may need to customize your options used with mpi in this case, but  
> it would only affect the usage in question and not all users.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gareth
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