[torqueusers] torque not listening to ppn request specs

[DuChene, StevenX A]

Nope; I just tried that too and got the same result. Packed processes one per processor instead of one per node. If I omit the ppn=1 option and just use tpn=1 I get the following:

$ qsub -l nodes=256:SeaMicro:tpn=1 script_noarch.pbs
qsub: Job exceeds queue resource limits MSG=cannot locate feasible nodes

I have 256 nodes so then I tried reducing my request down to 250 but same thing

$ qsub -l nodes=250:SeaMicro:tpn=1 script_noarch.pbs
qsub: Job exceeds queue resource limits MSG=cannot locate feasible nodes

so then I tried going down to only 25:

$ qsub -l nodes=25:SeaMicro:tpn=1 script_noarch.pbs
qsub: Job exceeds queue resource limits MSG=cannot locate feasible nodes

WTF?
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Steven DuChene

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Wakelin [mailto:jw292 at leicester.ac.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:52 AM
To: DuChene, StevenX A
Subject: Re: [torqueusers] torque not listening to ppn request specs

On 26/10/11 01:10, DuChene, StevenX A wrote:
> Hello all:
>
> I have torque 2.5.7 and maui 3.2.6p21 installed on a couple of small clusters
> and I am submitting the following mpi job using:
>
> qsub -l nodes=12:mynode:ppn=1 script_noarch.pbs

I think you want tpn in addition to ppn.  Where tpn = tasks per node.   Note the comma not semicolon.


    qsub -l nodes=12:ppn=1,tpn=1 script_noarch.pbs


Does that give you what you want?

It's best to think of nodes=12:ppn=1 as requesting 12 lots of 1 core, a request that could be satisfied by 12 single 
core machines or a single 12-core machine, or 2 six-core machines, and so on.   It doesn't specifically request 12 
physically separate nodes (servers).


At least, that's what we use here.

regards
Jon
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Dr Jon Wakelin
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IT Services, University Of Leicester, LE1 7RH
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