[StarCluster] Using DRMAA on StarCluster

[Chris Diehl]

FYI I was able to successfully submit a job following the tutorial.
Note that if you start with the "Running a job" example, you will need
a "s.initialize()" statement after "s = drmaa.Session()".

Chris

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Chris Diehl <cpdiehl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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