ARCHIVED: At IU, how do I use the serialjob script to submit batch jobs on Quarry?
On Quarry at Indiana University, the
serialjob
script provides a convenient method for
submitting serial (single-processor) programs to the TORQUE
resource manager. For complete documentation, see the
serialjob
manual page (man
serialjob
) on Quarry.
On this page:
Setting up your user environment
On the research supercomputers at Indiana University, the Modules environment management system provides a convenient method for dynamically customizing your software environment.
To add the serialjob
script to your Quarry user
environment, load the local-utils/20130301
module; on the
command line, enter:
module load local-utils/20130301
Options
When you submit a job with serialjob
, you may specify
how long the job should be allowed to run. The default is to launch
one process for up to two hours on Quarry without claiming the name of
the queue. The general form of the command is:
serialjob program [ program-options ] [ -- -softkey softkey -wallclocklimit hh:mm:ss -notify n|a|b|e -jobname name ]
Items in brackets are optional. Replace the example text above as follows:
- For
program
, substitute the name of the program to submit. - For
program-options
, substitute the command-line options you want to pass to the program. --
is required to separate the program options from the other options.- You need to specify the
softkey
option if you are using certain packages. For example, if you are usingmeme-4.1.0
, the softkey is+meme-4.1.0
. - For
wallclocklimit
, use thehh:mm:ss
format to specify the number of hours the job should be allowed to run. - For
notify
, you can choose to get email when the job begins (b
), aborts (a
), or ends (e
), or to get no email (n
). - For
jobname
, specify a name for your job.
No queue option is needed for the serialjob
command on
Quarry, because TORQUE automatically selects a queue based on the
hours you request to run the job.
Using serialjob
For example, suppose you've written a program called speedster that takes options that specify speed and the name of the file to be processed. To run the program for up to two hours, you would enter:
serialjob speedster -speed super mydata.dat
To run for up to 48 hours, you would enter:
serialjob speedster -speed super mydata.dat -- -wallclocklimit 48:00:00
To use the IMa program in the IM package, which has a softkey of
+IM-4-21-2008
, and run for up to 10 hours, you would
enter:
serialjob IMa -i IMa_test.u -o testwithpath.out -q1 10 -m1 4 -m2 4 -t 10 -u 1 -b 100000 -L 0.5 -p 123456 -n 20 -k 20 -f g -g1 0.6 -g2 0.8 .s 31910246 -- -softkey +IM-4-21-2008 -wallclocklimit 1:00:00 .jobname test
If the program that you wish to run is not in your default path, be
sure to use the fully qualified path name of the program. When your
job runs, the current working directory of your program is the
directory from which you ran the serialjob
command.
Limits of serialjob
- The
serialjob
script works only for serial applications. serialjob
will not work for programs that use a--
(double-dash) argument, becauseserialjob
uses that argument to separate options to your program from options to TORQUE.- If you need to quote arguments,
serialjob
handles only double quotes. It cannot provide the protection that is usually afforded by single quotes because the Bourne shell provides no mechanism for escaping characters within strings in single quotes. Thus,serialjob
treats single quotes as double quotes.
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