[Condor-users] condor newbie question on Rank for parallel jobs

["Cline, Danelle" <dcline@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,  

I'm a Condor newbie. I have an 8-node Beowulf cluster running Condor.  I have parallel jobs that can take a long time to execute. I don't want to preempt my running jobs, but want to run more than on job if I have the available CPU and memory.

When I submit subsequent jobs, I get the message "14 match but are serving users with a better priority in the pool". Is there way to set the Rank for a parallel job to allow submission of more than one jobs on claimed resource, or am I missing some concept altogether ?

vm1@beowulffi LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       1.000  1013  0+01:00:04
vm2@beowulffi LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.070  1013  0+01:00:05
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   251  0+09:10:21
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Owner      Idle       0.360   251  0+00:00:05
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.020   251  0+02:28:33
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+02:28:33
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+02:45:49
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+02:44:33
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+02:35:50
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+02:35:51
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.130   251  0+02:49:06
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+02:47:50
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.020   251  0+03:54:52
vm2@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.000   251  0+03:53:36
vm1@xxxxxxxxx LINUX       INTEL  Claimed    Busy       0.050   251  0+03:55:43

Any suggestions are much appreciated
~Danelle

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Danelle E. Cline, Software Engineer R&D Division        
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute 
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