Hi Richard and Reuti, Thanks a ton for your valuable inputs. I used the Xvfb to redirect the X output to the Virtual framebuffer and it is working fine. Cheers, Thanks a lot again.
--- On Mon, 7/3/11, Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> wrote: From: Reuti <re...@staff.uni-marburg.de> Subject: Re: [gridengine users] (no subject) To: "Bharanidharan Narayanaswamy" <bharan...@yahoo.com> Cc: "users@gridengine.org Users" <users@gridengine.org> Date: Monday, 7 March, 2011, 3:30 PM Hi, Am 07.03.2011 um 08:31 schrieb Bharanidharan Narayanaswamy: > Thank you for the reply. > > The UI is needed - because the application which is computing pops up a > terminal or console once the job is submitted. > > I tried suppressing the output and also tried to redirect it to NULL, both > didn't work. > > The DISPLAY environment is not set at all in the start script. > > regarding xvfb - is it possible to run it even if X server is running on all > the compute nodes? yes, from the point of view of the application it's a fake-X-server. You need it on all nodes in the cluster though. The setting of the startup-method which I mentioned earlier can be disregarded, as you submit the jobs with `qsub` and they run local inside the cluster afterwards. -- Reuti > Thank you. > > On 03/04/2011 05:48 PM, Bharanidharan Narayanaswamy wrote: > > Yes. I want a window to pop not not in my workstation but in the compute > > node itself. > > > > Because the application opens a UI (terminal) when the job is triggered. > > So if the job is able to open the same in the compute node, I'll not get > > the error. > > > > Is there a possibility to achieve this? > > But is this UI really ***NEEDED*** ? > Wouldn't it be better to just suppress or disable somehow this UI? > What happens if you just unset your DISPLAY environment variable in your > start script? > Isn't there any option to start your application without the UI? > > If you cannot switch it off you could send this X output to Xvfb, you > don't need an X server running on each host. > Just start Xvfb on your script and end it after your application has > finished. We do this here for an application we cannot change and wants > some X output, and it works fine. > > Best regards, > Richard > > -- > Richard Ems mail: richard....@cape-horn-eng.com > > Cape Horn Engineering S.L. > C/ Dr. J.J. D?mine 1, 5? piso > 46011 Valencia > Tel : +34 96 3242923 / Fax 924 > http://www.cape-horn-eng.com > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@gridengine.org > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
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