Saurabh Agarwal wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am a very bew to Condor, and have been a constant passive reader of
> the user-mailing list, trying to understand what all features it could
> provide and how to configure it for different resources. I am able to
> configure condor on using a 3 machine pool with one as the Central
> Manager. All the jobs submitted are submitted to the Central Manager
> and then distributed from Central Manager for execution. I am able to
> configure condor to run MPI jobs too over it.
>
> However, the problem starts here, as the part of my Master's project I
> have to include a new factor in machines called as "Reliability" to
> all my machine resources. Now this factor will tell me how much is the
> machine reliable so that scheduler can take this in to account as the
> part of calculating RANK for each machine. This "Reliability" factor
> is just a general idea so that the scheduling could be perform in a
> better way, taking account of how machine will perform in future. The
> "Reliability" factor is the value we generate on the scale of 1-10
> from 1 being the lowest and 10 being highly reliable. Now my problem
> is I can easily include this as a ClassAd _expression_ with a constant
> value in my local config file of all machines and then CONDOR can use
> it for calculating the RANK _expression_. However I would like the
> inclusion of this ClassAd as dynamic, i.e. the value of the
> "Reliability" factor should be entered dynamically through an output
> of a script, and then this should be taken in to account by Condor
> without restarting it, as I will do if I add the ClassAd in the config
> file.
>
> It would be great if any help could be provided in this regard. I have
> even tried hawkeye which let me do all this using an addition of a
> module, but the problem with hawkeye was the module installation
> script is not working. So any information regarding this would be a
> great help for me.
>
> Thank you,
> Saurabh Agarwal,
> Graduate Student - Computer Science,
> Binghamton University.
>
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