NQS on Cosmos and Eric -- Tech Doc

More

• A documenton installing and congiguring NQS from the University of Sheffield, which includes configurations for CPU-servers (cf. Eric) and for clusters.
  
  
• Full documentation for NQS from the University of Toronto.

Our Config

Simply followed the above doc from University of Sheffield, in particular, scroll down to Configuring Generic NQS, then Compute Servers. We have three queues: one_day, three_day and seven_day on both Cosmos and Eric.

All queues are local at the time of writing (2003July15) but plans are afoot to create non local queues, e.g., submit from both machines to a one_month queue on Eric.

Cosmos

    qmgr create batch_queue one_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 24:0:0 ) one_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 4 one_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 2 one_day
    qmgr enable queue one_day
    qmgr start queue one_day

    qmgr create batch_queue three_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 72:0:0 ) three_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 3 three_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 2 three_day
    qmgr enable queue three_day
    qmgr start queue three_day

    qmgr create batch_queue seven_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 168:0:0 ) seven_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 3 seven_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 1 seven_day
    qmgr enable queue seven_day
    qmgr start queue seven_day

Eric

    qmgr create batch_queue one_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 24:0:0 ) one_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 10 one_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 4 one_day
    qmgr enable queue one_day
    qmgr start queue one_day

    qmgr create batch_queue three_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 72:0:0 ) three_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 10 three_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 4 three_day
    qmgr enable queue three_day
    qmgr start queue three_day

    qmgr create batch_queue seven_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 168:0:0 ) seven_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 10 seven_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 4 seven_day
    qmgr enable queue seven_day
    qmgr start queue seven_day

    qmgr create batch_queue twenty_eight_day
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 168:0:0 ) twenty_eight_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 10 twenty_eight_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 4 twenty_eight_day
    qmgr enable queue twenty_eight_day
    qmgr start queue twenty_eight_day

Eric: VIP

    qmgr create batch_queue vip
    qmgr set per_process cpu_limit = ( 168:0:0 ) seven_day
    qmgr set run_limit = 15 seven_day
    qmgr set user_limit = 15 seven_day
    qmgr set no_access vip
    qmgr add users=<username> vip
    qmgr enable queue vip
    qmgr start queue vip

All

Nice level:

    set nice_value_limit = 0 three_day    # ...and similar for all queues on
                                          #    all machines...

    qmgr set global batch_limit = 30    # ...defaults to 10
                                        #    "show all" reveals this...