David Beer
2016-10-04 22:50:52 UTC
All,
Today we branched Torque 6.1 for release. It is currently beta quality and
under development, and we wanted to announce for anyone looking to try it
that it is available for beta. If you have a test system or just want to
play around with it, feel free to grab it and do so now. We do not yet have
a tarball posted, but you can clone and build it from git:
git clone https://adaptivecomputing.com/torque.git -b 6.1-dev 6.1-dev
Some of the highlights include:
Resource plugin - details are in contrib/resource_plugin_kit. This plugin
can be used to report arbitrary job resource usage, as well as generic
resources, generic metrics, varattrs, and or features for nodes through
plugins (other ways of reporting these features still exist as well,
nothing has been removed).
Partially instantiated arrays - arrays now have an idle slot limit.
Basically, you can request an array that will have millions of jobs, but
we'll only allow a limited number of them to be queued at a time. Whenever
an array subjob transitions from being queued to some other state, a new
job is created until the array no longer has subjobs. The default is 300
and there's a server parameter as well as a per-job parameter to control
this.
Increased submission, clean-up, and job start times - we have reduced the
number of network transactions for these events in order to make them
faster and simpler. This change was made in a way that maintains backward
compatibility.
There are also numerous bug fixes and significant amounts of refactoring
done for this release.
Please send particular questions or concerns to me, and things of general
interest to the appropriate list (either torqueusers or torquedev).
Cheers,
Today we branched Torque 6.1 for release. It is currently beta quality and
under development, and we wanted to announce for anyone looking to try it
that it is available for beta. If you have a test system or just want to
play around with it, feel free to grab it and do so now. We do not yet have
a tarball posted, but you can clone and build it from git:
git clone https://adaptivecomputing.com/torque.git -b 6.1-dev 6.1-dev
Some of the highlights include:
Resource plugin - details are in contrib/resource_plugin_kit. This plugin
can be used to report arbitrary job resource usage, as well as generic
resources, generic metrics, varattrs, and or features for nodes through
plugins (other ways of reporting these features still exist as well,
nothing has been removed).
Partially instantiated arrays - arrays now have an idle slot limit.
Basically, you can request an array that will have millions of jobs, but
we'll only allow a limited number of them to be queued at a time. Whenever
an array subjob transitions from being queued to some other state, a new
job is created until the array no longer has subjobs. The default is 300
and there's a server parameter as well as a per-job parameter to control
this.
Increased submission, clean-up, and job start times - we have reduced the
number of network transactions for these events in order to make them
faster and simpler. This change was made in a way that maintains backward
compatibility.
There are also numerous bug fixes and significant amounts of refactoring
done for this release.
Please send particular questions or concerns to me, and things of general
interest to the appropriate list (either torqueusers or torquedev).
Cheers,
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David Beer | Torque Architect
Adaptive Computing
David Beer | Torque Architect
Adaptive Computing