----- "Jim Kusznir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I first brought up my cluster of 24 8-core systems, maui > mis-detected the size of the system and rejected jobs that requested > more than a certian number of cores.
This is the age old problem with nodes=n being used to specify the number of cpus and then getting checked that n < number of nodes. > I had to change a config file to let users use the entire cluster. Would that be nodect ? > That is working; however, it also lets users submit > jobs larger than the entire cluster, so they just > sit in the queue until the user finds me and I > explain where they went wrong. Yup, that's what happens - I've long argued that Torque and Maui/Moab should have a new parameter (perhaps cpus=n) to disambiguate the situation. > It would be preferred if I could re-enable the admission control, but > have it accurately represent the size of the cluster. Is this > possible? I don't believe so. :-( > I think this is a maui problem, but if its actually a torque problem, > please let me know and I'll ask on the torque list...I'm not yet > familiar enough with where the dividing line is.... It's more of a Torque issue, I've CC'd this to the Torque Users & Development lists in case there's something that I've missed (or something on the cards). cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ mauiusers mailing list mauiusers@supercluster.org http://www.supercluster.org/mailman/listinfo/mauiusers
