I again Ralf, >I gather you have access to bjs? Could you use bjs to get a node allocation, >and then send me a printout of the environment?
I have slightly changed my cluster configuration for something like: master is running on a machine call: machine10 node 0 is running on a machine call: machine10 (same as master then) node 1 is running on a machine call: machine14 node 0 and 1 are up My bjs configration allocates node 0 and 1 to the default pool <---------------> pool default policy simple nodes 0-1 <-----------------> Be default, when I run "env" in a terminal, NODES variable is not present. If I run env under a job submission command like "bjsub -i env", then I can see the following new environments variable. NODES=0 JOBID=27 (for instance) BPROC_RANK=0000000 BPROC_PROGNAME=/usr/bin/env When the command is over, NODES is unset again. What is strange is that I would have expected that NODES=0,1. I do not know if you bjs users have the same behaviour. Hopefully, it is the kind of information you were expecting. Regards. Herve --------------------- ALICE SECURITE ENFANTS --------------------- Protégez vos enfants des dangers d'Internet en installant Sécurité Enfants, le contrôle parental d'Alice. http://www.aliceadsl.fr/securitepc/default_copa.asp