[torqueusers] DRMAA problems

[Mariusz Mamoński]

On 9 September 2011 18:57, Joerg Blank <j.blank at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently converted our cluster from SGE to Torque. We have some scripts which
> use DRMAA to launch and wait for jobs and I'm currently trying to adapt those.
>
> Unfortunately I encountered some problems with the Torque drmaa library. Some
> parts of the job options are not accepted by Torque. Especially the whole
> implicite working directory settings are missing (automatically set output path
> to cwd). It also does not seem to accept joinFiles and nativeSpecification.
>
> I usually use DRMAA via python-drmaa but the tests included in torque also fail.
>
> I'll include a example "qstats -f" output where I set explicitly output and
> error path via drmaa.
>
> I also tried the pbs-drmaa library, which shows the same behaviour. We are using
> Torque 2.5.8.

Could you try the newest 1.0.9 version from source forge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pbspro-drmaa/

?

This version should fix this problem. Also the nativeSpecifcation
should work. See:

http://apps.man.poznan.pl/trac/pbs-drmaa/wiki/WikiStart#Nativespecification



>
> Regards,
> Joerg Blank
>
> Job Id: 175.cluster
>    Job_Name = sleeper
>    Job_Owner = user at cluster
>    job_state = Q
>    queue = batch
>    server = cluster
>    Checkpoint = u
>    ctime = Fri Sep  9 18:42:55 2011
>    Error_Path = /home/user/mpidebug/sleeper.e175
>    Hold_Types = n
>    Join_Path = n
>    Keep_Files = n
>    mtime = Fri Sep  9 18:42:55 2011
>    Output_Path = /home/user/mpidebug/sleeper.o175
>    Priority = 0
>    qtime = Fri Sep  9 18:42:55 2011
>    Rerunable = True
>    Resource_List.neednodes = 1
>    Resource_List.nodect = 1
>    Resource_List.nodes = 1
>    Resource_List.pmem = 2gb
>    Resource_List.walltime = 01:00:00
>    Shell_Path_List = /bin/sh
>    substate = 10
>    Variable_List = PBS_O_QUEUE=batch,PBS_O_HOST=cluster
>    euser = user
>    egroup = users
>    queue_rank = 1345
>    queue_type = E
>    etime = Fri Sep  9 18:42:55 2011
>
>
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BR,
-- 
Mariusz