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H,

Sadly both the bedpostx and fsl_sub scripts are less than trivial  
examples of SGE usage (mea culpa). Send me your modified scripts and  
I'll see if I can work out what has gone wrong.

On 13 Dec 2008, at 00:28, Tugan wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I hope someone might shed a light on the problem I am having to get  
> the
> bedpostx running on a linux cluster using SGE. I have been  
> struggling to
> find the source of the problem but not exactly there, yet. I  
> installed the
> latest ver 4.1.2 on a CentOS 5 32 bit cluster and I am desperately  
> trying to
> run the bedpostx.
>
> I made minor modifications to the bedpostx script to point to the  
> right
> directory of SGE software on this machine and changed the email  
> address; but
> nothing else. Did the same modifications in the fsl_sub, too. I had to
> change the names of the queues, since they do not have them here.
>
> When I run the bedpostx script, it puts the preprocessing and  
> postprocessing
> steps in the queue (I see bpx_prepro and bpx_postpr when I do  
> qstat). But
> there is no bedpostx task in the queue. So, it quits after  
> preprocessing is
> completed. Interestingly, if I execute the fsl_sub call from the  
> command
> line by itself, it distributes the tasks in the commands.txt, and  
> runs fine
> and I get the data processed in the cluster. Then I have to call the  
> post
> processing separately to get the final results. This is, of course,  
> quite
> tedious and I would like to do batch processing of large data.
>
> If anyone had experienced this problem and know how to solve it, I  
> would be
> grateful if you can share your solution(s).
>
> kind regards,
>
> Tugan Muftuler
>

Cheers, Dave

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