[gridengine users] available slots per PE

[Dave Love]

Reuti <reuti at staff.uni-marburg.de> writes:

> Am 03.01.2012 um 10:09 schrieb mahbube rustaee:
>
>> A sentence on "man  sge_types" for wc_pe is:
>> You can specify a PE name which uses the wildcard character, "*".  Thus the request "pvm*" will
>>        match  any parallel environment with a name starting with the string "pvm". In the case of mul-
>>        tiple parallel environments whose names match the name string, the  parallel  environment  with
>>        the most available slots is chosen.
>
> There is no direct output for it. You would need a script to look for free slots. But this doesn't cover resource requests like memory or so. What you can try:
>
> $ qstat -g c -pe foobar

I think that just shows the queues which have foobar attached.

> -- Reuti
>
>
>> How can I get  available slots per PE?

I wonder why it's necessary to know.  To prefer specific PEs, I order
the hosts to which they're attached, e.g. dedicated nodes get used
first.