Re: Using DRMAA on StarCluster

From: MinRK <no email>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:13:49 -0700

>From IPython's perspective, I would love to use a Python library, rather
than qsub via a subprocess to launch engines with SGE in ipcluster.

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Chris Diehl <cpdiehl_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
> Should I be able to use DRMAA on a StarCluster instance to submit jobs
> from Python to the Grid Engine? It appears drmaa-python is installed.
> When I try to do an "import drmaa", I get the following response.
>
> root_at_master:/usr# python
> Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:06:09)
> [GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import drmaa
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/drmaa/__init__.py",
> line 41, in <module>
> import drmaa.wrappers as _w
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/drmaa/wrappers.py",
> line 43, in <module>
> raise RuntimeError(errmsg)
> RuntimeError: could not find drmaa library. Please specify its full
> path using the environment variable DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH
> >>>
>
> The Python DRMAA library looked like a good way to submit and monitor
> jobs running in SGE from Python. So I'd like to get this up and
> running if possible.
>
> Any suggestions you have would be most appreciated!
>
> Chris
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Received on Sun Jul 29 2012 - 20:14:10 EDT