Oracle Grid Engine User's Guide
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Oracle® Grid Engine User Guide Release 6.2 Update 7 E21976-02 February 2012 Oracle Grid Engine User Guide, Release 6.2 Update 7 E21976-02 Copyright © 2000, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Primary Author: Uma Shankar Contributing Author: Contributor: Andreas Schwierskott This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law for interoperability, is prohibited. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is not warranted to be error-free. 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Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................................................ vii Audience...................................................................................................................................................... vii Documentation Accessibility.................................................................................................................... vii Related Documents .................................................................................................................................... vii Conventions ................................................................................................................................................ vii 1 Getting Started 1.1 How the System Operates ......................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 How Resources Are Matched to Requests .............................................................................. 1-4 1.3 A Banking Analogy .................................................................................................................... 1-4 1.3.1 Jobs and Queues................................................................................................................... 1-5 1.4 Usage Policies .............................................................................................................................. 1-5 1.4.1 Using Tickets to Administer Policies................................................................................ 1-6 1.4.2 Using the Urgency Policy to Assign Job Priority ........................................................... 1-6 1.5 Choosing a User Interface......................................................................................................... 1-7 1.5.1 QMON - The Graphical User Interface............................................................................. 1-7 1.5.2 The Command Line Interface ............................................................................................ 1-8 1.5.3 The Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA) ........................ 1-8 1.6 Users and User Categories......................................................................................................... 1-8 2 Using Grid Engine 2.1 Interacting With Grid Engine as a User................................................................................... 2-1 2.1.1 Launching QMON From the Command Line ................................................................. 2-1 2.1.2 Customizing QMON ........................................................................................................... 2-2 2.1.3 Using the Command-Line Interface.................................................................................. 2-2 2.2 Displaying User Properties....................................................................................................... 2-2 2.2.1 User Access Permissions.................................................................................................... 2-3 2.2.2 Displaying Managers, Operators, Owners, and User Access Permissions ................ 2-4 2.3 Displaying Host Properties ...................................................................................................... 2-5 2.4 Displaying Queue Properties ................................................................................................... 2-6 2.4.1 Interpreting Queue Property Information ...................................................................... 2-6 2.5 Submitting Jobs .......................................................................................................................... 2-7 2.5.1 How Jobs Are Scheduled................................................................................................... 2-7 2.5.2 Usage Policies....................................................................................................................... 2-8 2.5.3 Job Priorities ........................................................................................................................ 2-9 iii 2.5.4 Ticket Policies...................................................................................................................... 2-9 2.5.5 Queue Selection................................................................................................................... 2-9 2.5.6 Defining Resource Requirements.................................................................................. 2-10 2.5.7 Requestable Attributes.................................................................................................... 2-12 2.6 Submitting Batch Jobs ............................................................................................................. 2-15 2.6.1 About Shell Scripts .......................................................................................................... 2-15 2.6.2 Extensions to Regular Shell Scripts............................................................................... 2-16 2.6.2.1 How a Command Interpreter is Selected............................................................... 2-16 2.6.2.2 Output Redirection................................................................................................... 2-16 2.6.2.3 Active Comments ..................................................................................................... 2-17 2.6.2.4 Environment Variables ............................................................................................ 2-18 2.7 Submitting Array Jobs............................................................................................................. 2-20 2.7.1 How to Configure Array Task Dependencies From the Command Line ............... 2-20 2.7.2 How to Submit an Array Job From the Command Line............................................ 2-23 2.7.3 How to Submit an Array Job With QMON .................................................................