Re: [Condor-users] Wildcards/regexp in Rank expression

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That should do it. Due to the way matchmaking works, the node may be  
initially matched with a non-numi job, then with a numi job on the  
next negotiation cycle. You'll have to set your preemption settings  
appropriately.

 -- Jaime

On Feb 14, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Steven Timm wrote:

> In the absence of wildcards in the meantime, I just added another
> attribute to the job classad, such that all jobs from group_numi
> now have another attribute called
>
> agroup
>
> So my Rank expression now reads
>
> Rank = ((agroup == "group_numi") * 1000)
>
> Is that all that is needed to achieve the desired effect:
> Namely,
> This node will prefer to run jobs from group_numi provided
> that there are jobs from group_numi available to run
>
> I have tried to test it but my cluster is pretty big and thus far
> I haven't been able to fill up the cluster enough to see whether if  
> the
> setting is making any difference.
>
> Steve Timm
>
>
> > > I am trying to set a RANK expression on a set of 15 worker nodes.
> > >
> > > The following works:
> > >
> > > Rank = ((accountinggroup == "group_numi.rubin") * 1000) + 1
> > >
> > > The idea is to give group_numi.rubin leading priority over any
> > > other user on these nodes which are part of a much larger pool.
> > >
> > > But really what I want to do is to give any user in
> > > accounting group group_numi.* the same priority as rubin.
> > > (new users get added to group_numi all the time and we don't want
> > > to edit the condor_config file every time one comes along).
> > > Is there any way to put a wildcard into the Rank expression (or
> > > any other similar classad expression)?  Or should I go about
> > > it differently?
> >
> > Soon, we will add functions to classads, including regexp (based on
> > PCRE).
> >
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+--------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
|           Jaime Frey           | I used to be a heavy gambler.     |
|       jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx        | But now I just make mental bets.  |
| http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jfrey/ | That's how I lost my mind.        |
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