Re: [HTCondor-users] Why all jobs are sent to slots in the same machine?

[Nathan Panike <nwp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:17:54PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 05/15/2013 10:07 AM, Nathan Panike wrote:
> > set
> > 
> > rank = -slotid
> > 
> > in your submit file to encourage your jobs to "spread out"
> 
> Is there a way to do it via config files? I.e. let the sysadmin set it
> once and for all rather than trying to get each individual user to
> modify their submit files?
> 
> Thx
> -- 
> Dimitri Maziuk
> Programmer/sysadmin
> BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
> 

See section 3.3.14 of the HTCondor manual:

http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v7.9/3_3Configuration.html#SECTION004314000000000000000

APPEND_RANK
    Expression to be appended to job rank. APPEND_RANK_STANDARD or APPEND_RANK_VANILLA will override this setting if defined.

APPEND_RANK_STANDARD
    Expression to be appended to standard job rank.

APPEND_RANK_VANILLA
    Expression to append to vanilla job rank. 

Nathan Panike