[Swift-devel] Re: Swift jobs on UC/ANL TG

[Ben Clifford]

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Mike Kubal wrote:

> Let me know what to try next, before I kill again.

Also, there is a clustering mechanism - this is where swift takes a bunch 
of jobs and aggregates them into a single submission to GRAM or PBS.

If you know a maximum execution time for your jobs, you can do that. 
There's a users guide section with some details:

http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/userguide.php#clustering

Basically, you need to set a maximum time for your executables in your 
tc.data file using the maxwalltime profie and then specify a value for 
clustering.min.time property. Clusters fo about 10 jobs perhaps the size 
to aim for.

You can use this with any submission mechanism - GRAM2, GRAM4 or PBS.

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