[Swift-user] Swift+MPI+LSF

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:04 -0400, Andriy Fedorov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Mihael Hategan <hategan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 10:22 -0400, Andriy Fedorov wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am trying to use Swift to run an MPI job via LSF scheduler (TG
> >> Lonestar, http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/services/userguides/lonestar/).
> >> Previously, I had problems running stuff like this with PBS (see
> >> http://mail.ci.uchicago.edu/pipermail/swift-user/2008-July/000443.html).
> >>
> >> Right now I am using the solution suggested by Ben (submit single node
> >> job, and run a shell wrapper to launch mpirun, ). This doesn't seem to
> >> work with LSF. I specify "GLOBUS::jobType=single,host_xcount=10", and
> >> have my shell wrapper run
> >
> > Try "count" instead of "host_xcount".
> >
> 
> This was indeed the solution. It seems to work. Thank you, Mihael!

It looks like it works on other sites too (I tried mercury at ncsa, which
has PBS). So it looks like UC is broken in this respect. I'll send a
ticket to TG.