[StarCluster] Parallel environment allocation rule

[Dustin Machi]

If you name you parallel environment something besides ORTE, it won't 
get blown away when new nodes are added/removed.  I usually create one 
called "amp" and I change the slots for that PE to be "999".  It will 
then fill the nodes up with jobs up to each individual nodes number of 
slots (cpus).  I'm sure this could be done as a plugin, but it isn't 
there now as far as I'm aware.  My cluster is long running, so to date 
we've just updated the qconf when we launch a new cluster.

Dustin

On 15 Feb 2013, at 3:31, Ed Morris wrote:

> How do I make the allocation rule of the parallel environment 
> automatically
> be set to $fill_up rather than the default $round_robin?
>
> When I set up a cluster, I manually edit the configuration using qconf 
> -mp
> orte, than then change the file myself.
>
> However, when adding or removing nodes, the ORTE configuration gets
> overwritten to the default again.
>
> Would there be a way of using a plugin to do this automatically?
>
> Ed.
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