[Condor-users] Condor, Octave and Scilab

[Simon David Hammond <sdh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Condor Users,

Has anyone been able to get either Octave or Scilab to compile and run 
correctly with Condor in the Standard Universe? The reason I ask is that 
we have a number of LONG running simulations here at the University and 
they are being evicted some of the time. Ideally we'd like to be able to 
checkpoint if possible. I've had a look around google, people mention it 
is possible but I wondered if anyone had any scripts or makefiles which 
actually do the compilation?

We've been trying various things for the last few weeks but can't get 
Scilab or Octave to actually link with Condor - the problem seems to be 
link errors relating to __dlopen in Scilab and numerous GNU C++ functions 
with Octave.

I'd be grateful for ANY advice or tips you guys have as I'm starting to 
pull my hair out!

Thanks,

Si Hammond,
University of Warwick,
Department of Computing Science