[Swift-devel] Re: [alcf-support #60887] Can Cobalt command-line bug on Eureka be fixed?

[Michael Wilde]

Thanks, Rich and Andrew, for the very fast responses.

We'll try the work-around, then.

Regards,

- Mike


----- Original Message -----
> Michael,
> 
> Unfortunately a fix for this will, at this point in time, take a
> minimum
> of four weeks to deploy to a production resource like Eureka, due to
> our
> testing, upgrade and maintenance procedures.
> 
> As a workaround for this on Eureka, since every job effectively runs
> in
> script mode, you should be able to set environment variables within
> the
> script that you submit to Cobalt.
> 
> We apologize for the inconvenience. Let us know if you have any other
> questions.
> 
> --
> Paul Rich
> ALCF Operations -- AIG
> richp at alcf.anl.gov
> 
> 
> On 1/11/11 4:48 PM, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > User info for wilde at mcs.anl.gov
> > =================================
> > Username: wilde
> > Full Name: Michael Wilde
> > Projects:
> > HTCScienceApps,JGI-Pilot,MTCScienceApps,OOPS,PTMAP,pilot-wilde
> > 	     ('*' denotes INCITE projects)
> > =================================
> >
> >
> > 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. :-)
> >
> >

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