Re: [condor-users] Condor-G question

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>         If i want to run N copies of the executable but with different
> arguments (like a parameter sweep) but still wanting to fork only one
> jobmanager process for those N copies how will i do it. Any ideas, hidden
> condor features that we could use.

If the remote jobmanager could be anything: Condor, PBS, LSF, or whatever, 
then I don't think there is a way to currently do this.

If you know that the remote jobmanager is Condor, there is no automatic way 
to do it. (Anyone want to take bets on Jaime Frey posting some cleve method 
for this just to show me up?) But, you could submit a job that is a script 
that:

  1) Submits N jobs to Condor
  2) Collates results from these jobs.
  3) Exits only after these jobs finish.

I suspect that this would be prone to difficulties occurred: What is the 
script fails but the jobs don't? What if Condor-G resubmits your job, and 
the previous jobs are still running?

Also, this is Condor specific, and that seems inelegant if you want to work 
in a heterogeneous grid.

-alain


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