[Swift-user] Swift runs one task despite slots set to higher number

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Feb 1 23:11:04 CST 2015


On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 21:28 -0600, Ketan Maheshwari wrote:
> Hi Mihael,
> 
> Swift is submitting one 16 *node* job with this setup.

Maybe, but it thinks it has 16 things that can run jobs, except 15 of
them are in limbo because jobType=single forces PBS to only start one
worker instance.

>  My intention is to
> run 10 such 16 node jobs.

I would suggest trying "single-node" jobs with an appropriately large
ppn, since support for MPI jobs is very limited currently.

Mihael




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