Questions tagged [gridengine]

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Does it matter about the amount of the swap area in Linux system

Does it matter if the amount of a swap area in Linux was set too small (say 1Gb), and the main RAM is 128Gb? Should we always set the amount of swap area to be twice the amount of RAM? UPDATED: Hi, thank all of you for replying this question. In…
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Installing Sun/Oracle Grid Engine on a single machine

I want to install a Grid Engine cluster entirely on my laptop, the "cluster" having only two nodes, one head node and one node for computing. The nodes should run within the same instance of the same OS (ubuntu 11.10), and each "node" should be…
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Make a SGE job output stdout to source terminal

I want to submit single jobs to the Sun Grid Engine, and make them look like they are executing locally. Instead of creating stdout and stderr file to output these to the calling terminals stdout and stderr. According to this page -k oe will keep…
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Can't get a bash to work with python on a SGE

I'm currently working on a SGE and I'm extremely unfamiliar with the linux environment. I have to execute python scripts but the setup is kinda confusing for me and I can't get it to work. The setup is the following : The default python installed…
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"Undefined variable" error in shell script on Sun Grid Engine

I have the following Sun Grid Engine submission script: #!/bin/sh # sun grid engine cluster # use current working directory #$ -cwd # merge error output into standard output stream #$ -j yes #$ -o generate_databases.log # request to cpu…
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installing Grid Engine "cannot reach qmaster"

I want to install Grid Engine on my laptop. I am using Ubuntu 11.10 under VirtualBox 4.1.6. (The purpose of installing Grid Engine is not to compute anything, I just want a working Grid Engine environment to be able try out bash scripting for array…
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CPU overheating?

I have a Dell 5820 running Ubuntu Server 18.04 with SGE installed. I have a queue set up for 20 slots which I fill with 20 jobs running at the same time. % CPU goes up to about 70% and I have 128GB so no problems there. I am worried about CPU…
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Grid Engine / multithreading / multi-core / multi-cpu: How to decide optimum number of threads?

I am using a program (*) under unix/linux (various flavours) on various servers and clusters, the program supports multithreading. I can specificy how many threads I want via command line option. Generally speaking, how can I determine how many…
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