[Condor-users] Obtaining slot-number in a job

[William Brodie-Tyrrell <William.Brodie-Tyrrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

 

I'm new to Condor and trying to run an old program that makes use of shared memory.  I would like to run 4 copies on each host (4-way SMP boxes) but they conflict with each other unless given a unique argument, i.e. the slot-number.

 

Is there any variable akin to $(process) and $(cluster) to obtain the slot number?  I also tried $$(slot), thinking that the value would be resolved only when the job is allocated to a particular execute machine, but the job gets held with "Cannot expand $$(slot)".

 

I would like to avoid trying to parse the user-ID inside my jobs or using lock-files to allocate shm slots.

 

 

thanks,

 

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William Brodie-Tyrrell, B.E, Ph.D

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Modelling & Analysis

 

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