Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor & LS-Opt

[Andrew Mole <Andrew.Mole@xxxxxxxx>]

For those that are interested, I now have it working with the "Black Box" queuing configuration, which requires the user to write scripts for interacting with condor - submitting jobs and passing the job number back to LS-Opt, querying the status of the jobs, and terminating them.

I can provide more information to any that are interested, although I suspect that I am the only one from the responses so far!

Andrew

PS Many thanks to the writers of HTCondor. It is a great tool.

On 2 Jul, 2013, at 6:26 AM, "Andrew Mole" <Andrew.Mole@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Miha,

Thank you for your response. I had already taken a look at Bosco, but there is no mention of LS-Opt and it seems that it does not work for us for two reasons:

* it is not written for Windows, and the submit computers that I was wanting to use are Win7 (phasing out WinXP).

* it requires submissions to be made using HTCondor syntax,which means that I have to write the wrappers anyway for LS-Opt to submit the tasks, and it doesn't seem to add anything at I need - i.e. it adds the ability to submit remotely and to describe dependencies, but our network is made up of desktop computers, and dependencies are handled by LS-Opt.

Am I missing anything? 

If Bosco worked on Win7, then it looks as though it could be useful for submitting LS-Dyna jobs to a Linux cluster that we have, though. Any idea if a Windows Bosco is in the pipeline?

Best regards,

Andrew

On 30 Jun, 2013, at 2:43 AM, "Miha Ahronovitz" <mihaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andrew,

I suggest you have a look at Bosco, http://bosco.opensciencegrid.org/ Download and install is very easy and you connect in a jiffy to an external cluster.

Ask any questions on bosco-discuss alias or contact me to direct you to an engineer. You will be  pleasantly surprised, I hope.

Miha Ahronovitz

Product Creation & User Adoption

Bosco Team

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Andrew Mole <Andrew.Mole@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am looking at an optimization tool called LS-Opt from LSTC (writers of the multiphysics analysis tool LS-DYNA). It is able to submit analysis jobs to queues, as long as it has a way of submitting and checking to see how the jobs are doing. I understand that it will work with PBS and SGE, but it would be great to hear if anyone else is using it with HTCondor.

 

I am aware of condor_qsub, and will be trying to see if LS-Opt can use it, once I have time to read through all the documentation!

 

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/current/condor_qsub.html

http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com/torque/4-1-3/Content/topics/commands/qsub.htm

http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/htmlman/htmlman1/qsub.html

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