[torqueusers] UC Can we use torque 4.2.0 for single machine acting as both server and node

[Rushton Martin]

Brian,

 

I'm afraid I must take issue with your caveat in the general case; it
all depends upon the size of the box.  Consider our previous machine
which was a 64 CPU Altix and we used Torque to handle the batch work.
Interactive logins were constrained by cpusets to the first 8 CPUs, the
remainder were assigned to the queue.  Memory usage for interactive work
was small compared to the machine as a whole; with sensible limits
Torque could allocate lots of memory to a single job when requested.
I'll admit that our workload is atypical, few users running relatively
few but quite large jobs rather than the more typical scenario of lots
of users running lots of short jobs.

 

Regards,

 

Martin

 

From: torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org
[mailto:torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of Andrus, Brian
Contractor
Sent: 26 January 2013 01:27
To: Torque Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: [torqueusers] Can we use torque 4.2.0 for single machine
acting as both server and node

 

Deepak,

 

Yes it is possible. And if you install pbs_mom and pbs_server along with
a scheduler (eg: pbs_sched) you should be just fine.

 

Caveats:

This in and of itself is not practical. If you are on the box, you
should be aware of the resources and not need a scheduler at all. If
others are also logging on, well, pbs will have no idea what resources
they are using, so your box could be brought to its knees.

I am assuming you are looking at this environment as a learning tool,
not a production environment.

That said, you may want to set your nodes file to specify 1 less core
than there are on the box. This will at least ensure your jobs don't
walk all over some of the other things you will have running. Same with
memory, you may want to tell torque to manage less than there really is
to prevent non-torque stuff from being walked on by torque stuff J

 

 

Brian Andrus

ITACS/Research Computing

Naval Postgraduate School

Monterey, California

voice: 831-656-6238

 

 

 

From: torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org
[mailto:torqueusers-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of Deepak
Shingan
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:01 PM
To: torqueusers at supercluster.org
Subject: [torqueusers] Can we use torque 4.2.0 for single machine acting
as both server and node

 

Hi,


I am new to torque and wanted to do some proof of concept around some
requirement but I don't have cluster setup. 

So is it possible to run torque 4.2.0 on single machine with multiple
core acting as both server and compute node. If yes what are the changes
I need to do for setup?

Regards,
-Deepak

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