I have a need to run jobs that have two software requirements. One is a
generic consumable resources sort of requirement (4 licenses available to
run anywhere) and the second is a piece of software that is only installed
on some nodes. Since they are both software requirements, I would like to
be able to specify "qsub -l software=A,software=B" or similar, but it
seems that torque only uses the last software option in this case - which
is fine for one software requirement, but not two.
-l gres=A:1,gres=B:1 which seems to be recommeded by
http://www.clusterresources.com/products/mwm/docs/13.3rmextensions.shtml#gres
has the same behaviour.
-W x=GRES:A+1,B+1 seems to work. Am I being too fussy when I say this
seems very obtuse and I would prefer to recommend a simpler syntax to
users?
Perhaps there is a simpler way that I can't find documentation for.
Any ideas?
I'm running torque 2.1.7-snap.200611061737 and the current moab.
Moab has both software A and B defined as GRES (floating and node locked)
nad requesting either resource on its own works.
thanks,
Gareth Williams
ps. Yes I could use node properties for the second piece of software but I
prefer not to tell users to request some software in one way and some in
another.
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