Re: [Condor-users] problem defining slots

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Looks like you missed NUM_SLOTS = 2

Best,


matt

On 12/18/2010 11:11 AM, Carsten Urbach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just started to use condor for our cluster. The cluster has nodes
> with 8 cores and 4 GPU's each. I just managed to set-up a policy such
> that 4 slots are used for CPU+GPU computing and 4 for CPU only,
> basically with a START statement like
>
> START = (((SlotId<  5)&&  (TARGET.NeedGpu =?= TRUE)) || ((SlotId>  4)&&  \
>          (TARGET.NeedGpu =?= FALSE)))
>
> But I would also like to let a job consume more than one CPU (and/or GPU) at
> once. For this I thought to set up partitionable SLOTS like this
>
> SLOT_TYPE_1 = cpus=4
> SLOT_TYPE_2 = cpus=4
> NUM_SLOT_TYPE_1 = 1
> NUM_SLOT_TYPE_2 = 1
> SLOT_TYPE_1_PARTITIONABLE = TRUE
> SLOT_TYPE_2_PARTITIONABLE = TRUE
>
> But I cannot get this working: I always get 8 slots on each machine,
> no matter what I do. And each slot claims to have 1 cpu (from
> condor_status -l). And I cannot find the attributes
> PartitionableSlot or DynamicSlot using condor_status -l.
>
> I am using debian lenny with kernel
>
> Linux lattice01 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 16 15:56:38 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> with condor
>
> $CondorVersion: 7.4.4 Oct 13 2010 BuildID: 279383 $
> $CondorPlatform: X86_64-LINUX_DEBIAN50 $
>
> which I installed using the .deb packet from the condor webpage.
>
> Can someone tell me how to properly define the slots? Do I have to
> publish the types etc. somewhere, or should the lines quoted above be
> enough?
>
> Thanks
>
> Carsten
>
> For reference, here my full condor_config.local file, maybe the slots
> just don't go together with one of the other options:
>
> ##  What machine is your central manager?
>
> CONDOR_HOST = $(FULL_HOSTNAME)
>
> ## Pool's short description
>
> COLLECTOR_NAME = Personal Condor at $(FULL_HOSTNAME)
>
> NUM_CPUS = 8
> SLOT_TYPE_1 = cpus=4
> SLOT_TYPE_2 = cpus=4
> NUM_SLOT_TYPE_1 = 1
> NUM_SLOT_TYPE_2 = 1
> SLOT_TYPE_1_PARTITIONABLE = TRUE
> SLOT_TYPE_2_PARTITIONABLE = TRUE
> START = (((SlotId =?= 1)&&  (TARGET.NeedGpu =?= TRUE)) || ((SlotId =?= 2)&&  (TARGET.NeedGpu =?= FALSE)))
>
> SUSPEND        = False
> CONTINUE       = True
> PREEMPT        = False
> KILL           = False
> WANT_SUSPEND   = False
> WANT_VACATE    = False
> #RANK           = Scheduler =?= $(DedicatedScheduler)
>
>
> ##  This macro determines what daemons the condor_master will start
> ##  and keep its watchful eyes on.
> ##  The list is a comma or space separated list of subsystem names
>
> DAEMON_LIST = COLLECTOR, MASTER, NEGOTIATOR, SCHEDD, STARTD
>
> ##  Sets how often the condor_negotiator starts a negotiation cycle.
> ##  It is defined in seconds and defaults to 60 (1 minute).
>
> NEGOTIATOR_INTERVAL = 20
>
> ##  Disable UID_DOMAIN check when submit a job
>
> TRUST_UID_DOMAIN = TRUE
>
> STARTD_ATTRS = $(STARTD_ATTRS)
>
>
> --
> Carsten Urbach
> e-mail: curbach@xxxxxx
>          urbach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> URL: http://www.carsten-urbach.eu
>
>
>
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