[Swift-user] Adding :bigmem to node count

Justin M Wozniak wozniak at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Mar 18 14:16:37 CDT 2011


Hello
 	Actually, it looks like there may be a queue for bigmem jobs, is 
that what you want to use?  If so, you would just modify the queue profile 
entry in sites.xml .
 	Justin

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Justin M Wozniak wrote:

>
> 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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