Re: [condor-users] New user questions about condor_submit

[Mark Silberstein <marks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What I would also suggest is using Condor perl library. If you are using
Windows, you should pick that library from the Linux distribution of
Condor (look at /lib for Condor.pm) and change a couple of lines, but
it's easy and it'll work. I did it and it worked for me. See Condor
manual for Condor perl interface section. It really makes life easier. 

In general, dear Condor developers, it would take you at most 1 hour to
make Condor.pm work on Windows, and it would save  hours of work to the
users. I'm not talking about fixing bugs, just make it work on Windows
out of the box.

Thanks
Mark


On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 22:40, Peter Couvares wrote:
> Erik Paulson wrote:
> >Brian Baer wrote:
> > >
> > > 1)  We often make a number of runs of the same program with the only
> > > difference being a different random number seed.  If we were running
> > > the program from the command line the syntax would be:
> > >
> > >    primitive -s $seed
> > >
> > > inside of our condor command file we could do something like:
> > >
> > >    executable = ./primitive
> > >    arguments = -s $(Process)
> > >    queue 10
> > >
> > > However sometimes we don't want to start the sequence from 0.  Is
> > > there someway to change the starting value of the Process variable?
> > > Or is there someway to do some basic math inside the command file
> > > like:
> > >
> > >    arguments = -s $(Process)+$(Some_Offset)
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > >    arguments = -s `echo "$(Process)+$(Some_Offset)" | bc`
> > >
> >
> >Not using condor_submit. We've thought about it in the past, and the current
> >thinking in Perl/Python/tcsh are better scripting languages than we can
> >come up with, so we think people are better off writing Perl scripts that
> >write out submit files.
> 
> For example, it should be easy to replace your executable with a simple 
> shell wrapper which increments the Process ID and then calls your "real" 
> executable.  E.g.:
> 
>    % cat > plusone.sh
>    #!/bin/sh
>    OFFSET=1
>    exec ./primitive -s $[$OFFSET + $1]
>    ^D
>    % chmod 755 plusone.sh
> 
> ...and then in your Condor submit file, change:
> 
>    executable = plusone.sh
>    arguments = $(Process)
> 
> (And if you don't use a shared filesystem between submit and execute nodes, 
> you will also need to specify your "real" executable in 
> transfer_input_files, since only plusone.sh will be automatically sent for 
> you by Condor.)
> 
> -Peter
> 
> 
> ---
> Peter Couvares                        http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~pfc
> Condor Project Research               pfc@xxxxxxxxxxx
> University of Wisconsin-Madison       (608) 265-8936
> 
> Condor Support Information:
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/condor-support/
> To Unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with
> unsubscribe condor-users <your_email_address>

Condor Support Information:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/condor-support/
To Unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxx with
unsubscribe condor-users <your_email_address>