[StarCluster] Using DRMAA on StarCluster

[Chris Diehl]

This export statement seems to solve the problem I was having.
export DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/sge6-fresh/lib/linux-x64/libdrmaa.so.1.0"

Going to try the tutorial example for submitting a job now.
http://code.google.com/p/drmaa-python/wiki/Tutorial

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 5:13 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> From IPython's perspective, I would love to use a Python library, rather
> than qsub via a subprocess to launch engines with SGE in ipcluster.
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Chris Diehl <cpdiehl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> Should I be able to use DRMAA on a StarCluster instance to submit jobs
>> from Python to the Grid Engine? It appears drmaa-python is installed.
>> When I try to do an "import drmaa", I get the following response.
>>
>> root at master:/usr# python
>> Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct  4 2011, 20:06:09)
>> [GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>> >>> import drmaa
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/drmaa/__init__.py",
>> line 41, in <module>
>>     import drmaa.wrappers as _w
>>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/drmaa/wrappers.py",
>> line 43, in <module>
>>     raise RuntimeError(errmsg)
>> RuntimeError: could not find drmaa library. Please specify its full
>> path using the environment variable DRMAA_LIBRARY_PATH
>> >>>
>>
>> The Python DRMAA library looked like a good way to submit and monitor
>> jobs running in SGE from Python. So I'd like to get this up and
>> running if possible.
>>
>> Any suggestions you have would be most appreciated!
>>
>> Chris
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