[Users] using PBS -V on kraken

[Scott Noble]

Hi,

  I've used -V on kraken using another code successfully, but not ET 
(haven't tried).

   One thing you could do as a compromise is limit your environment 
variables before submission, only setting the ones you need.

   I hope this helps.

   cheers, scott n.

On 02/22/2012 12:03 PM, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> Roland
>
> Which variable do you want to set? Did you try -V on Kraken? If it
> works, then let's use it. Modifying the submit script or run script
> would also work; no need to provide a generic solution if there's only
> a single use case.
>
> -erik
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Roland Haas
> <roland.haas at physics.gatech.edu>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'd like to use PBS's -V switch (propagates environment settings to the
>> qsub script) on Kraken (through simfactory2). Simfactory currently does
>> not use this swich on Kraken. In fact NICS recommends against using -V
>> (http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/computing-resources/kraken/running-jobs#Batch%20Scripts):
>> --8<--
>> Note:  Please do not use the PBS -V option. This can propagate large
>> numbers of environment variable settings from the submitting shell into
>> a job which may cause problems for the batch environment. Instead of
>> using PBS -V, please pass only necessary environment variables using -v
>> <comma_separated_list_of_ needed_envars>. You can also include module
>> load statements in the job script.
>> --8<--
>> TACC on the other hand actually requires you to have the flag present
>> (for the modules I presume). Did anyone every actually experience any
>> issues with -V on Kraken?
>>
>> Mostly I would like to use the flag so that Cactus' $ENV{'...'}
>> mechanism works without me having to modify the run/submission scripts
>> by hand. Is there maybe a simfactory option to define extra environment
>> variables (I only need one but would rather not hard-code it into the
>> submission script and instead could add it to the submit call)?
>>
>> Yours,
>> Roland
>>
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