[Users] using PBS -V on kraken

[Erik Schnetter]

Shouldn't the location of the initial data be in the parameter file?
Either this, or it should be compiled into the executable (similar to
the location of a shared library).

You could add an option to the thorn calling Lorene to use setenv
before calling Lorene.

-erik

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Roland Haas
<roland.haas at physics.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Hello Erik, Scott,
>
>>  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.
> At least it tells me that I am not the only one who does what NICS
> recommends against :-). Thank you. I am not sure how to limit my
> environment variables before submission though. They are already set at
> that point. I don't add extra ones via (something equivalent to):
> INITIAL_DATA=blah qsub Submit.qsub
> rather they are set in .bashrc (otherwise I tended to forget to set them
> and have the run abort after waiting for 24hr in queue).
>
>>> 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.
> I have used -V on kraken before (always did in the GT submit script and
> for maybe 4 runs using a modified simfactory submit script). I never had
> problems that I would blame on the environment variable.
>
> The variable I would like to pass in is $INITIAL_DATA which is actually
> a path to a directory containing ID files with LORENE data files. So it
> is not a "general use" variable that is always defined. Expanding the
> path by hand in the parameter file is awkward since it would likely
> hard-code information about the user name and/or the cluster and whether
> simfactory is used in the parameter file.
>
> NICS suggests to use the -v (lowercase V) switch to pass only individual
> environment variables (which is close to what you suggested, Scott,
> isn't it?).
>
> So the simfactory submit script does not not include "-V" because the
> original author wanted to do what NICS suggests but he omission is
> without explicit intent?
>
> Yours,
> Roland
>



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