Andrew Washbrook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any experience with virtual queue configuration at
> their site?
No, though we do use sge.
> I am trying to create a new (externally visible) queue which
> ultimately maps to the same queue as all other jobs sent to our local
> batch system. The motivation here is to apply different SGE directives
> depending on the queue requested, and I am not in a position to add a
> new real queue to our central batch system.
Why is it that you want separate queues rather than applying whatever
directives at job submission time?
Or, to put it another way, does
http://scotgrid.blogspot.com/2009/05/cream-in-action-consumable-resources.html
achieve what you want.
>
> I have found a way of hacking the SGE submit scripts to get this done
> but I would like to make any modifications by the book if possible.
>
> I thought /etc/sge-jobmanager/vqueues.conf
ours is:
#
# SGE JobManager queue mapping file
#
# Virtual
# Queue Property New Value
# --------------------------------------------------
lcg_long queue lcg_long
lcg_creamtest queue lcg_creamtest
lcg_long max_cpu_time 2640
lcg_long max_wall_time 2640
> might be the way forward but
> the docs in /opt/glite/share/doc/glite-info-dynamic-sge/README seem to
> suggest that the use of this file is restricted to only specific SGE
> setups. Does anyone use this in practice?
>
Chris
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