On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Jan Just Keijser wrote:
>> we run glite-TORQUE_server-3.2.2-0 which uses torque-2.3.6-2. The 2.3 branch of
>> torque is due one more revision before it becomes end of life (which will be towards the end
>> of September/October)
>>
>> Does anybody know why the gLite repo is not moving forward to the 2.4 branch?
>>
> The main reason is because nobody is officially responsible for creating
> new versions of torque ... At Nikhef we agreed to support torque on a
> best-effort basis , but we would not produce new versions of torque:
> we'd use whatever is in the EPEL repositories. The current version in
> EPEL is 2.3.10, uploaded by Steve Traylen. If nobody updates the EPEL
> repos then no major new version would be introduced.
>
> I've brought this issue up within EMI and even within EGI but there's no
> consensus on how to proceed.
>
> My main questions are:
> - what are the requirements for a new version of Torque/PBS? which PTs
> are affected?
> - if we upgrade, why not upgrade to 2.5.2 instead of 2.4.10?
> - who will maintain the EPEL version of torque (currently Steve Traylen
> is listed but I know he has many other things to do)?
>
> Similar questions apply to the other batch systems, BTW: what about Sun
> Grid Engine? How are the SGE maintainers informed of changes in the
> interfaces between the batch system and glite? what is there's a major
> change in the blah scripts - how are the different batch systems
> affected? who "owns" this interface ? Matters like this were covered in
> EGEE III by the SA3 batch system integration team (Dennis and me) but
> this has all disappeared in the post-EGEE III era.
It's really unbelievable that such an important component of every grid site doesn't get any attention...
Will this issue be discussed this week at the Technical Forum in Amsterdam?
>> I found this in the changelog of torque 2.4.9:
>>
>> b - restore ability to parse -W x=geometry:{...,...}
>>
>> @Tim: Did you test this with 2.4.9 or with an earlier release?
>>
>>
> see
> http://www.clusterresources.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80
> this bug was reported (again) to the torque developers one week ago but
> they're still in denial...
I'm currently in contact with Adaptive Computing because of Moab. I'll try to push that.
> There's also a patch from Eygene Ryabinkin to solve this issue for both
> 2.4.9+ and 2.5 .
> I'd propose that IF we upgrade that
> - we upgrade to 2.5.2
I got told that the 2.5 branch is beta code at present with the main purpose to improve
scalability over 10000 nodes. Thats why I asked for 2.4.10
> - we include Eygene's patch to solve the -W issue
>
> share and enjoy,
I would be happy to share and enjoy...
Cheers,
Peter.
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