The tag has no wiki summary.

learn more… | top users | synonyms

0
votes
0answers
6 views

Torque PBS: If we change queue attributes do they come into effect instantly or do I need to restart PBS?

Like I mention in the title, if we change queue attributes do they come into effect instantly or do I need to restart PBS? Let me know.
1
vote
0answers
11 views

Torque PBS Manager permission rules cannot be changed

When I try to change the queue as such: set queue standard total_jobs=16 I get the following error: qmgr obj=standard svr=default: Cannot set attribute, read only or insufficient permission ...
0
votes
0answers
8 views

How to change PBS job submission rules

We have job submission rules for our parallel computing center which uses PBS for job scheduling. I need to change them but have no idea how to. Anyone? Operating system is CentOS on scyld ...
-1
votes
1answer
16 views

Torque: How lock node cores to one application [closed]

I am having an issue that I do not know how to solve. Say I have 2 nodes (node1 and node2) each with 24 cores, I have software where I have a license for 32 cores. I want to be able to configure ...
0
votes
0answers
44 views

Coping problems with Torque PBS

I'm running torque on a CentOS 6 machine (as the head) and three CentOS 6 compute nodes. What I'm trying to do is get my head node to pass jobs through to it's compute nodes. When I run echo "sleep ...
0
votes
0answers
29 views

pbs/torque escape character behavior in batch mode

The following runs as expected in an interactive shell, but not in a batch shell. #!/bin/bash -l #PBS -l walltime=0:10:00,nodes=1:ppn=1 #PBS -j oe #PBS -m abe var=$(echo "testing 1 2 3" | awk "{if ...
0
votes
0answers
170 views

Torque PBS Errors on Node “sys_copy, command '/usr/bin/scp -rpB /var/spool/pbs/spool/169104.davidbook.ER david@DavidBook://Test.e169104'”

and thank you for any help with this problem. I will find some questions I can answer well to pay the community back either way. I keep getting the following error on my test cluster syslog: May 20 ...
1
vote
0answers
488 views

torque pbs 4.0.1 job stays queued ('Q') state; the scheduler seems not receiving any notification

I am using torque 4.0.1 on openSUSE 12.1 in a cluster environment. When I qsub a job (simple as "echo hello"), it remains in 'Q' state, and never gets scheduled. I can force the job to run with qrun, ...
1
vote
0answers
37 views

Getting pbs configuration

I am currently working on an application which use the accounting logs generated by pbs/torque (by default in $APPHOME/server_priv/accounting). I would like to now if there is a reliable way to find ...
3
votes
2answers
206 views

Can read/write jobs be put in a queue?

I share a server with HAL. The server has 32 GB of memory. I rarely use more than 1GB of memory, and when I do, it is for a few minutes at a time, and I don't mind sending such jobs to the back of ...
2
votes
1answer
145 views

PBS Jobs - serial vs parallel job which one is better for my scenario

I have access to a cluster that uses 'torque' (I think) and we use PBS scripts to submit jobs. I need to run more then 200 instances of an app that I've developed in java. The app acts as a peer ...
1
vote
1answer
229 views

pbs/Torque interactive jobs: bash trick to run command after launch

I'm using pbs interactive jobs in bash, launched using qsub -I, and I'd like to run some command after launch. After this command is run, I'd like to continue to use the interactive reservation as ...
0
votes
1answer
165 views

Non-exclusive job scheduling in PBS/Torque

The cluster resource manager Torque typically allocates compute nodes on an exclusive basis. However, when you have a lot of small jobs (like we do) running against multi-core compute nodes, this can ...
1
vote
1answer
752 views

Torque jobs does not enter “E” state (unless “qrun”)

Jobs I add to the queue stays there in "Queued" state without attempts to be executed (unless I manually qrun them) /var/spool/torque/server_logs say just 04/11/2011 ...
0
votes
1answer
183 views

Only half of my pbs/Torque jobs are being scheduled

My supercomputing center recently moved from SGE to pbs/Torque. Now, when I schedule my array jobs, only half of the jobs in the array get scheduled. When they finish, the other half get scheduled. ...