[Swift-devel] Can Cobalt command-line bug on Eureka be fixed?

[Michael Wilde]

Hi ALCF Team,

The following known issue in Cobalt is currently preventing us from running Swift on Eureka:

  http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/cobalt/ticket/462

With some additional development effort we can work around this, but it would be much cleaner and better if this were fixed in Cobalt, instead, as suggested in ticket 462 above.

Is there any chance that can be done in the next few days? 
If not, please let me know, and we will implement the work-around instead.

This is holding up work on the DOE ParVis project (Rob Jacob, PI) and we've had to move some work we want to run on Eureka to other platforms in the meantime.

Thanks very much,

Mike

462 is:

Ticket #462 (new defect)
Opened 7 months ago
Cobalt on clusters ignores job script arguments

Reported by:	acherry	
Priority:	 major	
Component:	 clients
	
Description 

It appears that cobalt-launcher.py does not support running a job script or executable with command arguments, even though qsub will accept the arguments, and the man page and help for qsub indicates that arguments are accepted.

I'm filing this as a bug rather than a feature request, since the behavior isn't consistent with the documentation. But I'd rather the fix for this to be adding support for args, rather than changing the docs to say they aren't accepted. :-)
 

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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory