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NAME

       pegasus-cluster - run a list of applications

SYNOPSIS

       pegasus-cluster [-d] [-e | -f] [-S ec] [-s fn] [-R fn] [-n nr] [inputfile]

DESCRIPTION

       The pegasus-cluster tool executes a list of application in the order specified (assuming
       sequential mode.) It is generally used to do horizontal clustering of independent
       application, and does not care about any application failures. Such failures should be
       caught by using pegasus-kickstart to start application.

       In vertical clustering mode, the hard failure mode is encouraged, ending execution as soon
       as one application fails. When running a complex workflow through pegasus-cluster , the
       order of applications in the input file must be topologically sorted.

       Applications are usually using pegasus-kickstart to execute. In the pegasus-kickstart
       case, all invocations of pegasus-kickstart except the first should add the
       pegasus-kickstart option -H to supress repeating the XML preamble and certain other
       headers of no interest when repeated.

       pegasus-cluster permits shell-style quoting. One level of quoting is removed from the
       arguments. Please note that pegasus-kickstart will also remove one level of quoting.

ARGUMENTS

       -d
           This option increases the debug level. Debug message are generated on stdout . By
           default, debugging is minimal.

       -e
           This flag turns on the old behavior of pegasus-cluster to always run everything and
           return success no matter what. The -e flag is mutually exclusive with the -f flag. By
           default, all applications are executed regardles of failures. Any detected application
           failure results in a non-zero exit status from pegasus-cluster.

       -f
           In hard failure mode, as soon as one application fails, either through a non-zero exit
           code, or by dying on a signal, further execution is stopped. In parallel execution
           mode, one or more other applications later in the sequence file may have been started
           already by the time failure is detected.  Pegasus-cluster will wait for the completion
           of these applications, but not start new ones. The -f flag is mutually exclusive with
           the -e flag. By default, all applications are executed regardless of failures. Any
           detected application failure results in a non-zero exit status from pegasus-cluster.

       -h
           This option prints the help message and exits the program.

       -s fn
           This option will send protocol message (for Mei) to the specified file. By default,
           all message are written to stdout .

       -R fn
           The progress reporting feature, if turned on, will write one event record whenever an
           application is started, and one event record whenever an application finished. This is
           to enable tracking of jobs in progress. By default, track logs are not written, unless
           the environment variable SEQEXEC_PROGRESS_REPORT is set. If set, progress reports are
           appended to the file pointed to by the environment variable.

       -S ec
           This option is a multi-option, which may be used multiple times. For each given
           non-zero exit-code of an application, mark it as a form of success. In -f mode, this
           means that pegasus-cluster will not fail when seeing this exit code from any
           application it runs. By default, all non-zero exit code constitute failure.

       -n nr
           This option determines the amount of parallel execution. Typically, parallel execution
           is only recommended on multi-core systems, and must be deployed rather carefully, i.e.
           only completely independent jobs across of whole inputfile should ever be attempted to
           be run in parallel. The argument nr is the number of parallel jobs that should be
           used. In addition to a non-negative integer, the word auto is also understood. When
           auto is specified, pegasus-cluster will attempt to automatically determine the number
           of cores available in the system. Strictly sequential execution, as if nr was 1, is
           the default. If the environment variable SEQEXEC_CPUS is set, it will determine the
           default number of CPUs.

       inputfile
           The input file specifies a list of application to run, one per line. Comments and
           empty lines are permitted. The comment character is the octothorpe (#), and extends to
           the end of line. By default, pegasus-cluster uses stdin to read the list of
           applications to execute.

RETURN VALUE

       The pegasus-cluster tool returns 1, if an illegal option was used. It returns 2, if the
       status file from option -s cannot be opened. It returns 3, if the input file cannot be
       opened. It does not return any failure for failed applications in old-exit -e mode. In
       default and hard failure -f mode, it will return 5 for true failure. The determination of
       failure is modified by the -S option.

       All other internal errors being absent, pegasus-cluster will always return 0 when run
       without -f . Unlike shell, it will not return the last application’s exit code. In default
       mode, it will return 5, if any application failed. Unlike shell, it will not return the
       last application’s exit code. However, it will execute all applications. The determination
       of failure is modified by the -S flag. In -f mode, *pegasus-cluster returns either 0 if
       all main sequence applications succeeded, or 5 if one failed; or more than one in parallel
       execution mode. It will run only as long as applications were successful. As before, the
       *-S flag determines what constitutes a failure.

       The pegasus-cluster application will also create a small summary on stdout for each job,
       and one for itself, about the success and failure. The field failed reports any exit code
       that was not zero or a signal of death termination. It does not include non-zero exit
       codes that were marked as success using the -S option.

TASK SUMMARY

       Each task executed by pegasus-cluster generates a record bracketed by square brackets like
       this (each entry is broken over two lines for readability):

           [seqexec-task id=1, start="2011-04-27T14:31:25.340-07:00", duration=0.521,
            status=0, line=1, pid=18543, app="/bin/usleep"]
           [seqexec-task id=2, start="2011-04-27T14:31:25.342-07:00", duration=0.619,
            status=0, line=2, pid=18544, app="/bin/usleep"]
           [seqexec-task id=3, start="2011-04-27T14:31:25.862-07:00", duration=0.619,
            status=0, line=3, pid=18549, app="/bin/usleep"]

       Each record is introduced by the string seqexec-task with the following constituents,
       where strings are quoted:

       id
           This is a numerical value for main sequence application, indicating the application’s
           place in the sequence file. The setup task uses the string setup , and the cleanup
           task uses the string cleanup .

       start
           is the ISO 8601 time stamp, with millisecond resolution, when the application was
           started. This string is quoted.

       duration
           is the application wall-time duration in seconds, with millisecond resolution.

       status
           is the raw exit status as returned by the wait family of system calls. Typically, the
           exit code is found in the high byte, and the signal of death in the low byte.
           Typically, 0 indicates a successful execution, and any other value a problem. However,
           details could differ between systems, and exit codes are only meaningful on the same
           os and architecture.

       line
           is the line number where the task was found in the main sequence file. Setup- and
           cleanup tasks don’t have this attribute.

       pid
           is the process id under which the application had run.

       app
           is the path to the application that was started. As with the progress record, any
           pegasus-kickstart will be parsed out so that you see the true application.

PEGASUS-CLUSTER SUMMARY

       The final summary of counts is a record bracketed by square brackets like this (broken
       over two lines for readability):

           [seqexec-summary stat="ok", lines=3, tasks=3, succeeded=3, failed=0, extra=0,
            duration=1.143, start="2011-04-27T14:31:25.338-07:00", pid=18542, app="./seqexec"]

       The record is introduced by the string seqexec-summary with the following constituents:

       stat
           The string fail when pegasus-cluster would return with an exit status of 5.
           Concretely, this is any failure in default mode, and first failure in -f mode.
           Otherwise, it will always be the string ok , if the record is produced.

       lines
           is the stopping line number of the input sequence file, indicating how far processing
           got. Up to the number of cores additional lines may have been parsed in case of -f
           mode.

       tasks
           is the number of tasks processed.

       succeeded
           is the number of main sequence jobs that succeeded.

       failed
           is the number of main sequence jobs that failed. The failure condition depends on the
           -S settings, too.

       extra
           is 0, 1 or 2, depending on the existence of setup- and cleanup jobs.

       duration
           is the duration in seconds, with millisecond resolution, how long *pegasus-cluster
           ran.

       start
           is the start time of pegasus-cluster as ISO 8601 time stamp.

SEE ALSO

       pegasus-kickstart(1)

CAVEATS

       The -S option sets success codes globally. It is not possible to activate success codes
       only for one specific application, and doing so would break the shell compatibility. Due
       to the global nature, use success codes sparingly as last resort emergency handler. In
       better plannable environments, you should use an application wrapper instead.

EXAMPLE

       The following shows an example input file to pegasus-cluster making use of
       pegasus-kickstart to track applications.

           #
           # mkdir
           /path/to/pegasus-kickstart -R HPC -n mkdir /bin/mkdir -m 2755 -p split-corpus split-ne-corpus
           #
           # drop-dian
           /path/to/pegasus-kickstart -H -R HPC -n drop-dian -o '^f-new.plain' /path/to/drop-dian /path/to/f-tok.plain /path/to/f-tok.NE
           #
           # split-corpus
           /path/to/pegasus-kickstart -H -R HPC -n split-corpus /path/to/split-seq-new.pl 23 f-new.plain split-corpus/corpus.
           #
           # split-corpus
           /path/to/pegasus-kickstart -H -R HPC -n split-corpus /path/to/split-seq-new.pl 23 /path/to/f-tok.NE split-ne-corpus/corpus.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       A number of environment variables permits to influence the behavior of pegasus-cluster
       during run-time.

       SEQEXEC_PROGRESS_REPORT
           If this variable is set, and points to a writable file location, progress report
           records are appended to the file. While care is taken to atomically append records to
           the log file, in case concurrent instances of pegasus-cluster are running, broken
           Linux NFS may still garble some content.

       SEQEXEC_CPUS
           If this variable is set to a non-negative integer, that many CPUs are attempted to be
           used. The special value auto permits to auto-detect the number of CPUs available to
           pegasus-cluster on the system.

       SEQEXEC_SETUP
           If this variable is set, and contains a single fully-qualified path to an executable
           and arguments, this executable will be run before any jobs are started. The exit code
           of this setup job will have no effect upon the main job sequence. Success or failure
           will not be counted towards the summary.

       SEQEXEC_CLEANUP
           If this variable is set, and contains a single fully-qualified path to an executable
           and arguments, this executable will be before pegasus-cluster quits. Failure of any
           previous job will have no effect on the ability to run this job. The exit code of the
           cleanup job will have no effect on the overall success or failure state. Success or
           failure will not be counted towards the summary.

HISTORY

       As you may have noticed, pegasus-cluster had the name seqexec in previous incantations. We
       are slowly moving to the new name to avoid clashes in a larger OS installation setting.
       However, there is no pertinent need to change the internal name, too, as no name clashes
       are expected.

AUTHORS

       Jens-S. Vöckler <voeckler at isi dot edu>

       Pegasus http://pegasus.isi.edu/

                                            02/28/2012                         PEGASUS-CLUSTER(1)