[HTCondor-users] Run Matlab Jobs using Condor

[Dennis Zheleznyak <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

I have the latest 8.1.2 Condor running on a Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit machine.

I have a complied Matlab executable that accepts a parameter which is a folder, and knows to take the files inside it and run all sorts of calculations using them.

Details:

C:\test\program.exe - The executable

C:\test\condor.submit_0 - The Job file

L:\Patients\1090\ - A mapped network drive and the directory that holds the files.

Condor.submit_0:

universe = vanilla 

executable = program.exe 

error = error.$(cluster) 

should_transfer_files = YES 

when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT 

getenv = True 

load_profile = True 

arguments = "L:\Patients\1090"

queue 1 

When I run the program by double clicking, everything works properly. When I try to run it through Condor using the condor.submit_0 file that is seen above I get the following error:

Error:

{Error using cd

Cannot CD to L:\Patients\1090 (Name is nonexistent or not a

directory).

Error in demo33 (line 4)

} 

MATLAB:cd:NonExistentDirectory

The directory exists, I can access it and the permissions are fine. 

I know I can use the "input= <folder>" to copy the folder and it's content to the temporary execute folder but what do I need to insert into "arguments = <Folder>" so the job will run properly ?

The number that is given to C:\condor\execute\condor_XXXX is random and I can't insert a a number that I don't know about into the job file. 

Any suggestion ?