User talk:AndreasHaas

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I'd like to hear opinion of the user community how to best overcome a quite old problem.

Please have a look to

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75

the issue is for a parallel job one can not directly specify a resource request that is debited only one time for the entire job. This is because with parallel jobs it is common to multiply any resource request debited against a consumable resource with the number of slots the job gets allocated by Grid Engine scheduler. Though there is a workaround described under but it requires any Grid Engine end user to work around the problem.

The interesting question now is how that issue should be fixed. Result of discussion happend so far (as part of IZ #75) let me believe a qsub(1) option such as "-masterl rsrc=val,..." was the ideal solution. There is a competing solution however that would require merely a "-cat job_category" be introduced as outlined under

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24

the good thing with introducing job categories to qsub(1) is that it would give Grid Engine administrators a general means to hide lenghtly qsub(1) parameters behind a simple name to make job submission more convenient for end users. On the other hand the -masterl option appears to be a more clean solution ...

I'd appreciate user community discussion to happen - be it on gridengine.info or the Grid Engine users@ mailing list. As a matter of course ideally both issues would be adressed in future. My question simply is which one is considered more important by Grid Engine administrators who "suffer" from that problem.

Cheers, Andreas