Re: [Condor-users] classad and slots

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/05/2011 11:09 PM, Nick LeRoy wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Matthew Farrellee<matt@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > On 12/30/2010 02:56 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure i understand how a classad mechanism works, hopefully
> > > > someone can straighten it out for me
> >
> > Yes that's true it is simpler, but doesn't actually fulfill my entire
> > need.  We have many machines with Nvidia cards all of different
> > models.  The point of the Cron script is to allow condor to have a
> > generic configuration irrespective of which particular card is in the
> > machine (think GPU_NAME == 'Tesla S2050')
> >
> > > From the testing i've done it appears that if i define the SLOT level
> >
> > classads in the config file and start condor it does indeed overload
> > the base classad with the slot level classad,
> >
> > however, if i inject the slot level classads from cron into the
> > runtime configuration, it does not overload the base classad.
> >
> > i'm not sure if this is a bug, a design, or a misconfiguration of
> > condor, but it doesn't seem right to me.  if i can inject classads
> > into the condor configuration from cron (which works because i inject
> > HASGPU==True/False from Condor Cron) , why can i not inject slot level
> > classads in the same way.
>
> You ask, and you shall receive...  For 7.5.6, I've reworked the cron logic
> significantly.  Amoungst the new features will be the ability to specify
> something like this:
>
> CRON_MYJOB_SLOTS = 1,2,4
>
> Unfortunately, this won't make it into the soon to be released 7.5.5.
>
> -Nick

I noticed that GT today. Are you going to enable this for dynamic slots, 
e.g. CRON_MYJOB_SLOTS = 1_1,1_3,1_5,2_3,4

Best,


matt