The Advanced tab of the Submit Job dialog box enables you to define the following additional parameters:
Parallel Environment – A parallel environment interface to use
Environment – A set of environment variables to set for the job before the job runs. Click the icon at the right of the Environment field to open a dialog box that enables you to define he environment variables to export:
Environment variables can be taken from QMON`s runtime environment, or you can define your own environment variables.
Context – A list of name/value pairs that can be used to store and communicate job-related information. This information is accessible anywhere from within a cluster. You can modify context variables from the command line with the -ac, -dc, and -sc options to qsub, qrsh, qsh, qlogin, and qalter. You can retrieve context variables with the qstat -j command.
Checkpoint Object – The checkpointing environment to use if checkpointing the job is desirable and suitable. See Using Job Checkpointing for details.
Account – An account string to associate with the job. The account string is added to the accounting record that is kept for the job. The accounting record can be used for later accounting analysis.
Verify Mode – The Verify flag determines the consistency checking mode for your job. To check for consistency of the job request, the grid engine system assumes an empty and unloaded cluster. The system tries to find at least one queue in which the job could run. Possible checking modes are as follows:
Skip – No consistency checking at all.
Warning – Inconsistencies are reported, but the job is still accepted. Warning mode might be desirable if the cluster configuration should change after the job is submitted.
Error – Inconsistencies are reported. The job is rejected if any inconsistencies are encountered.
Just verify – The job is not submitted. An extensive report is generated about the suitability of the job for each host and queue in the cluster.
Mail – The events about which the user is notified by email. The events' start, end, abort, and suspend are currently defined for jobs.
Mail To – A list of email addresses to which these notifications are sent. Click the icon at the right of the Mail To field to open a dialog box for defining the mailing list.
Hard Queue List, Soft Queue List – A list of queue names that are requested to be the mandatory selection for the execution of the job. The Hard Queue List and the Soft Queue List are treated identically to a corresponding resource requirement.
Master Queue List – A list of queue names that are eligible as master queue for a parallel job. A parallel job is started in the master queue. All other queues to which the job spawns parallel tasks are called slave queues.
Job Dependencies – A list of IDs of jobs that must finish before the submitted job can be started. The newly created job depends on completion of those jobs.
Deadline – The deadline initiation time for deadline jobs. Deadline initiation defines the point in time at which a deadline job must reach maximum priority to finish before a given deadline. To determine the deadline initiation time, subtract an estimate of the running time, at maximum priority, of a deadline job from its desired deadline time. Click the icon at the right of the Deadline field to open the dialog box that enables you to set the deadline.
Not all users are allowed to submit deadline jobs. Ask your system administrator if you are permitted to submit deadline jobs. Contact the cluster administrator for information about the maximum priority that is given to deadline jobs.
Figure 3–6 shows an example of an advanced job submission.
The job defined in Extended Job Example has the following additional characteristics as compared to the job definition in Submitting Extended Jobs With QMON.
The job requires the use of the parallel environment mpi. The job needs at least 4 parallel processes to be created. The job can use up to 16 processes if the processes are available.
Two environment variables are set and exported for the job.
Two context variables are set.
The account string FLOW is to be added to the job accounting record.
Mail must be sent to me@myhost.org as soon as the job starts and finishes.
The job should preferably be executed in the queue big_q.