Re: [Condor-users] Submitting a parallel job in the vanilla universe

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Cargnelli Matthieu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know if it is possible to schedule a "vanilla" job which is 
> multithreaded, on a single multi-processor machine.
> As I use the usual configuration (1 VM for 1 processor), I can use the 
> totalCpus parameter in the job description file 
> (Requirements=(totalCpus>=4) ) for instance. But then only one VM is 
> reserved for the job. I suppose this method will work if a single job is 
> submitted as in my tests, but what if 4 jobs are submitted ?
>
> I couldn't find an answer aside from using the parallel universe. is it 
> possible to reserve a full node with a vanilla job ?
>
> Best regards

Dan's HOWTO covers this under "How to allow some jobs to claim the whole 
machine instead of one slot" - http://nmi.cs.wisc.edu/node/1482

Best,


matt