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  • Bug in condor_annex: The following will wait for an annex named krowe - annex - casa5 (note the spaces).  If I pass $(myannex) as an argument to a shell script, the spaces are not there.
    • include.htc
      • myannex = krowe-annex-casa5
    • submit.htc
      • include : include.htc
      • executable = /bin/sleep
      • arguments = 127
      • +MayUseAWS = True
      • requirements = AnnexName == $(myannex)
      • queue
    • Actually, I think this isn't a bug but a limitation on using macros.  The AnnexName needs to be quoted but how can I quote a macro?  Note, I have the same problems with AnnexNames that don't have hyphens (E.g. krowetest).
      • No: requirements = AnnexName == "$(myannex)"
      • No: myannex = "krowe-annex-casa5"
      • No: myannex = \"krowe-annex-casa5\"
      • No: myannex = "\"krowe-annex-casa5\""
    • Idea: +myannex = "krowe-annex-casa5"
    • requirements = AnnexName == $(myannex)


Answered Questions:

  • JOB ID question from Daniel

    • When I submit a job, I get a job ID back. My plan is to hold onto that job ID permanently for tracking. We have had issues in the past with Torque/Maui because the job IDs got recycled later and our internal bookkeeping got mixed up. So my questions are:

       - Are job IDs guaranteed to be unique in HTCondor?
       - How unique are they—are they _globally_ unique or just unique within a particular namespace (such as our cluster or the submit node)?

    • A Job ID (ClusterID.ProcID)
    • DNS name of the schedd and ctime of the job_queued.log file.
    • It is unique to a schedd.
    • We should talk with Daniel about this.  They should craft their own ID.  It could be seeded with a JobID but should not depend on just it.
  • UpgradingHTCondor without killing jobs?
    • schedd can be upgraded and restarted without loosing state assuming the restart is less than the timeout.
    • currently restarting execute services will kill jobs.  CHTC is working on improving this.
    • negotiator and collector can be restarted without killing jobs.
    • CHTC works hard to ensure 8.8.x is compatible with 8.8.y or 8.9.x is compatible with 8.9.y.
  • Leaving data on execution host between jobs (data reuse)
    • Todd is working on this now.
  • Ask about installation of CASA locally and ancillary data (cfcache)
    • CHTC has a Ceph filesystem that is available to many of their execution hosts (notibly the larger ones)
    • There is another software filesystem where CASA could live that is more used for admin usage but might be available to us.
    • We could download the tarball each time over HTTP.  CHTC uses a proxy server so it would often be cached.
  • Environment:  Is there a way to have condor "login" when a job starts thus sourcing /etc/proflie and the user's rc files? Currently, not even $HOME is set.
    • A good analogy is Torque does a su - _username_ while HTCondor just does a su _username_
    • WORKAROUND: setting getenv = True which is like the -V option to qsub, may help. It doesn't source rc files but does inherit your current environment. This may be a problem if your current environment is not what you want on the cluster node. Perhaps the cluster node is a different OS or architecture.
    • ANSWER: condor doesn't execute things with a shell.  You could set your executable as /bin/bash and then have the arguments be the executable you used to have.  I just changed our stuff to staticly set $HOME and I think that is good enough.

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