[Users] Issues configuring SimFactory for PBS cluster (Hubble) - Jobs failing to submit correctly

[MAKINO Taiki]

Dear Einstein Toolkit Users,

I am trying to configure SimFactory to submit jobs using PBS on a machine named "Hubble".

Initially, the automatically generated hubble.ini was configured for a local login node submission. I attempted to modify the submission commands to support our PBS environment, but the jobs are not running properly.

Here are the modifications I made to the .ini configuration:

  *   submit: Changed from: exec nohup @SCRIPTFILE@ < /dev/null > @RUNDIR@/@SIMULATION_NAME at .out 2> @RUNDIR@/@SIMULATION_NAME at .err & echo $! To: qsub @SCRIPTFILE@

  *   stop: Changed from: pkill -g $(ps -o pgid= -p @JOB_ID@) To: qdel @JOB_ID@

  *   getstatus: Changed from: ps @JOB_ID@ To: qstat -f @JOB_ID@

Symptoms:

  1.  When running simfactory/bin/sim submit, no .out or .err files are generated at all.

  2.  When running simfactory/bin/sim create-submit, the .out and .err files are generated, but the .out file only contains the PBS job ID, and the .err file is completely empty.

  3.  No simulation output files or directories are created inside the designated simulation directory.

As you can see from the symptoms,  create-submit successfully captures the job ID, but the simulation does not run and no output is generated.

Could anyone guide me on the correct way to write the submit option or the template script for PBS in SimFactory? Any working examples of a PBS configuration (.ini and .sub files) would be greatly appreciated.

For your reference, I have attached my .ini file and .sub file that I am currently using.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Taiki Makino

Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University

makino.taiki.g6 at s.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp<mailto:makino.taiki.g6 at s.mail.nagoya-u.ac.jp>

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