[gridengine users] Restricting queue to certain job types

[Reuti]

Hi,

Am 24.02.2012 um 00:25 schrieb S Joe:

> Most jobs in our cluster we restrict to a certain subset of nodes in our cluster.  I have one job type that can run on any node.  So I setup a specific queue for that type of job and assign it all nodes and ask users to submit those jobs to that queue (-q mascot.q).  The rest of the queues in our configuration are limited to the subset of nodes.  Unfortunately when users submit jobs and don't request a queue (as they normally would) sometimes they end up in the mascot.q when all other queues are full.
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> So to addrss the problem I tried creating an requestable boolean complex called mascot and setting it as a complex on the mascot queue.  The idea was that instead of requesting the mascot.q you'd request the mascot resource and those job types would be assigned to the mascot.q and run on any node in the cluster.  Any other jobs would never get put in the mascot.q as they don't have that resource.  For some reason this doesn't work -- when jobs are submitted without the mascot resource they still end up in the mascot queue.
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> I'm sure I'm either not understanding something or doing something simple wrong.

Yeah, requesting a resource is more SGE style than requesting a dedicated queue.

How did you set up the complex? It sounds like it's not set to "requestable FORCED" but "requestable yes" only.

NB: if you attach the complex to the exechosts and not the queue, it might even work to have only one queue in the cluster.

-- Reuti