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On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 5:50 AM Loris Bennett
wrote:
>
> Hi Nigella,
>
> Nigella Sanders writes:
>
> > Thank you all for such interesting replies.
> >
> > The --dependency option is quite useful but in practice it has some
> > inconvenients. Firstly, all 20 jobs are instantly queued
Hi Nigella,
Nigella Sanders writes:
> Thank you all for such interesting replies.
>
> The --dependency option is quite useful but in practice it has some
> inconvenients. Firstly, all 20 jobs are instantly queued which some
> users may be interpreting as an abusive use of common resources.
This
Thank you all for such interesting replies.
The --dependency option is quite useful but in practice it has some
inconvenients. Firstly, all 20 jobs are *instantly queued* which some users
may be interpreting as an abusive use of common resources. Even worse, if a
job fails, the rest one will stay
Hi,
I'm not sure what queue time limit of 10 hours is. If you can't have jobs
waiting for more than 10 hours, than it seems to be very small for 8 hours
jobs.
Generally, a few options:
a. The --dependency option (either afterok or singleton)
b. The --array option of sbatch with limit of 1 job at a
Hi Nigella,
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 09:12:17AM +, Nigella Sanders wrote:
> I have to run 20 jobs on our supercomputer.
> Each job takes about 8 hours and every one need the previous one to be
> completed.
> ...
> Is there any prefererable/canonical/friendly way to do this?
I would use --depen
Hi,
I would recommend to use dependencies (-d) option available in sbatch or srun.
You need -d afterok:jobid. Hopefully it works.
Best
Zia Ul Huda
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße
