Thursday, March 4, 2010

rocks linux cluster - adding a new parallel environment

by default rocks ships with a couple of environments, which execute stuff on different nodes. But sometimes you just want to have a node all to your self and take over all it's slots.

Todo this you can just create a new environment and which gives you a defined number of cpus for a specified job.


  1. create a file which describes the paralell environment like this

  2. pe_name threaded
    slots 999
    user_lists NONE
    xuser_lists NONE
    start_proc_args /bin/true
    stop_proc_args /bin/true
    allocation_rule $pe_slots
    control_slaves FALSE
    job_is_first_task TRUE
    urgency_slots min
    accounting_summary FALSE

  3. register this on the head node

  4. qconf -Ap file.txt

  5. add it to the list of available envionments

  6. qconf -mq all.q
    pe_list make mpich mpi orte threaded

  7. test it with qlogin

  8. qlogin -pe threaded 4

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