<div dir="ltr">Roland<div><br></div><div>NO_ALLOCATION was introduced for backward compatibility. Initially, most Simfactory users used the same allocation (LSU numrel group), and we entered this into the MDB. Later this was not a good default any more, so we replaced it with something "neutral". </div><div><br></div><div>This looks like a good idea. We might need to update the MDB definition as well to make this key either required or optional (don't know which is better).</div><div><br></div><div>-erik</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Roland Haas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rhaas@illinois.edu" target="_blank">rhaas@illinois.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello all,<br>
<br>
I would like to remove the<br>
<br>
allocation = NO_ALLOCATION<br>
<br>
lines from simfactory's machine definition files.<br>
<br>
They seem to have not benefit that I can see and cause two types of<br>
problems:<br>
<br>
* simfactory does not default to the allocation in the [default]<br>
section which is the only one set up when doing sim setup on the<br>
cluster itself<br>
<br>
* simfactory does not warn/abort if no allocation is set for the<br>
cluster since as far as simfactory is concerned, there actually is an<br>
allocation defined (namely "NO_ALLOCATION"). This is eventually<br>
caught by qsub and friends but simfactory's handling of qsub errors<br>
is not very good unfortunately<br>
<br>
Does anyone remember why we introduced NO_ALLOCATION? And would anyone<br>
object to remove it from all the affected ini files (which is most of<br>
them it seems).<br>
<br>
Yours,<br>
Roland<br>
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