[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] pbs ppn count and stuff

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Tue Feb 1 16:40:53 CST 2011


On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:01 -0600, Michael Wilde wrote:
> Thanks for the quick response. One followup - when you say:
> 
> > > What is "count in cog"? ...
> > It's a task attribute. It means "start this many instances of the
> > process".
> 
> By task attribute you mean I assume a parameter to the Karajan task()
> element and the associated CoG execution providers?  But there is no
> direct way to set it from Swift sites.xml? Or is there? Or its just
> set in the process of translating Swift requests into jobs?

Good point. There is no direct way to express it in swift. The only way
it transpires is through the coaster configuration. So we might as well
keep that in terms of compute nodes.

Mihael




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