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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