On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:01:30AM +0100 or thereabouts, Andreas Haupt wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
> thanks for your answer.
>
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Steve Traylen wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:52:25AM +0100 or thereabouts, Andreas Haupt
> >wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I'm in the process of making our local SGE farm available for LCG.
> >>Therefore I modified the lcgpbs.pm job manager module to use SGE and
> >>called it lcgsge.pm. This is working so far.
> >>
> >>One thing I really need is the ability of setting job limits. But
> >>unfortunately it's not really supported, is it? Everything regarding job
> >>requirements seems to be done by the RB which chooses a matching CE.
> >>
> >>But let's have a look at some code snippets from (lcg)pbs.pm:
> >>
> >>my $description = $self->{JobDescription};
> >>
> >>$wall_time = $description->max_wall_time();
> >>$cpu_time = $description->max_cpu_time();
> >>$max_memory = $description->max_memory();
> >>
> >>and things like this. What do I have to do (e.g. in the jdl file) to get
> >>real values for wall_time, cpu_time, ... out of $description?
> >
> >Hi Andreas,
> >
> >Basically you can't do it. While it is true that putting those values in
> >the GRAM submission would then enforce those values at the the CE.
> >
> >However the RB does set any of these values during the GRAM submission.
> >
> >This has been on the wish list forever it seems like put there is now
> >progress happening towards this.
>
> So this is actually dead code by now, isn't it? Can you tell me how the
> roadmap concerning the implementation of this feature looks like (e.g.
> which lcg version will implement support for this and when will it be
> released)?
I would try and leave it in, in particular while the RB does use this
mechanism those people submitting with CondorG directly do set these
values and parts of atlas are using this mechanism at the moment.
As for how things are going look at the two talks by Tim Bell and
Fracesco Prelz from Wednesday at
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/conf/hepix05/agenda.html
Steve
>
> Greetings
> Andreas
>
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