Re: Manipulating # of slots in Sun Grid Engine

From: Rajat Banerjee <no email>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:03:06 -0400

Excellent. Thanks for the starting points, Rayson.

Rajat


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Rayson Ho <raysonlogin_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> The easiest way is to set up queue calendars that are active for the
> periods of time of your choice -- ie. when it is off peak hours, you
> get the extra number of slots available to run jobs:
>
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/htmlman/htmlman5/queue_conf.html
> http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/htmlman/htmlman5/calendar_conf.html
>
> Rayson
>
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> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Rajat Banerjee <rajatb_at_post.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Has anyone tried to manipulate the number of slots detected by SGE?
> >
> > We want to manipulate the number of slots:
> >
> > -- Set the ## of slots lower than the # of CPUs in the hosts for certain
> > periods of time, so that we could use those slots for processing other
> tasks
> > like serving web requests
> >
> > -- Set the ## of slots to be double that of the # of CPUs / cores. We
> have
> > jobs bound by external API calls rather than CPU or IO bound tasks, and
> are
> > considering the poor man's version of parallelizing them. Multithreaded
> jobs
> > are not be possible yet.
> >
> > We wouldn't be doing the same manipulations concurrently.
> > Thanks,
> > Rajat Banerjee
> >
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