Re: [Condor-users] any way to dynamically submit dependent jobs?

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:00:29PM -0700, White, John K wrote:
> hi condor users,
> 
> greetings to the list. i have a use case that i'm struggling to fit into
> condor. i'm a condor novice and i hope this is not an rtfm-type
> question. i have a sequence of jobs. they must be executed in a certain
> order. so far so good, but the complication arises in that the job
> sequence is not fully-formed when the first job is submitted. this is
> because the process of generating each job takes a significant amount of
> time, and the details of subsequent jobs such as their Requirements are
> unknown until they are generated. to maximize efficiency i would like to
> submit a job A so that it can run while i'm generating a job B. the idea
> is that when i'm done generating B, i would submit it under the
> condition that it can't start until A finishes (if A is still running).
> i am aware of dagman, but as far as i can tell it does not satisfy the
> use case as the complete graph must be defined prior to A's submit time.
> am i crazy or missing the obvious? any advice is greatly appreciated.
> 

You can use the PRE scripts for job B to rewrite the requirements 
expression of job B before DAGMan submits the it.

-Erik