On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 03:08:53PM -0400, berg...@merctech.com wrote: > In the message dated: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:56:58 -0000, > The pithy ruminations from William Hay on > <Re: [gridengine users] possible to match resource request against list of > valu > es in a complex?> were: > => On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 12:16:50AM +0200, Reuti wrote: > => > Hi, > => > > => > Am 28.10.2016 um 22:59 schrieb berg...@merctech.com: > => > > Then a user could run: > => > > > => > > qsub -l foobar=7.5 > => > > => > What about the opposite way (when "versions" is a RESTRING): > => > > => > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values versions=_7_7.5_ node_a > => > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values versions=_6.5_ node_c > => > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values versions=_7.5_8_ node_d > => > > => > Then a user could run: > => > > => > qsub -l "versions=*_7.5_*" ... > => > > => > The surrounding _ should avoid that *7* finds 7, 7.5 or 17 > > Reuti, > > I considered something like that, but it seems very error-prone. I'm looking > for something that's simple for the users. > > => > > => If you are really attached to the qsub -l foobar=7.5 syntax > => you could add a JSV to modify the user request from that format > => to the one Reuti suggests. Of course that you could > => do this doesn't necessarily imply that you should. > > William, > > Can you please expand on that? You seem to be edging very close to saying > that it's a bad idea, but not coming right out with that statement. Is > there something I should know before going down that route?
Just that because JSVs are a flexible tool it can be tempting to stuff everything into one and create a big mess. Also JSVs don't change requests tweaked on by qalter. > > As an alternative, I might just define several boolean complexes, as in: > > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar7.0=TRUE node_a > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar7.5=TRUE node_a > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar7.0=TRUE node_b > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar7.5=TRUE node_b > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar8.0=TRUE node_b > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar6.5=TRUE node_c > qconf -mattr exechost complex_values foobar7.0=TRUE node_c > > and then users can do: > qsub -l foobar7.0 ... > that's pretty good from a point of view of human-readability.
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