[Swift-user] Adding :bigmem to node count

Justin M Wozniak wozniak at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Mar 13 17:17:55 CDT 2011


I'll take a look at this- it will probably be a small CoG feature 
addition.

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Sheri Mickelson wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> It's for fusion and I'm running with swift-r3967.
>
> Thanks, Sheri
>
> Michael Wilde wrote:
>> Sheri, I am not yet sure, but I think we'll need to add a feature in Swift 
>> to enable this specification to be passed down to qsub. That should be 
>> doable fairly soon; I had to do something similar to run on Cray XE/XT 
>> systems, which I did based on Swift 0.92.
>> 
>> What machine is this for, and which Swift release or build are you running?
>> 
>> In the meantime, a solution you could use more immediately would be to run 
>> with manual/persistent coasters, where you could specify your own qsub. 
>> This works right now but requires some wrapper scripting that is not yet 
>> packaged or sufficiently documented, so thats a route that also requires 
>> some work from you and/or us.
>> 
>> I know Justin is working with you, so we should all coordinate and 
>> hopefully we can resolve this soon for you.
>> 
>> - Mike
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> To run a job without swift I need to specify "-l nodes=2:bigmem" in
>>> either my qsub command or add it
>>> to my run script. How do I tell swift to add ":bigmem" to the node
>>> total?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, Sheri
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