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NAME
sge_types - Sun Grid Engine type descriptions
DESCRIPTION
The Sun Grid Engine user interface consists of several programs and files. Some command-
line switches and several file attributes are types. The syntax for these types is
explained in this page.
OBJECT TYPES
These types are used for defining Sun Grid Engine configuration:
calendar_name
A calendar name is the name of a Sun Grid Engine calendar described in calendar_conf(5).
calendar_name := object_name
ckpt_name
A "ckpt_name" is the name of a Sun Grid Engine checkpointing interface described in
checkpoint(5).
ckpt_name := object_name
complex_name
A complex name is the name of a Sun Grid Engine resource attribute described in
complex(5).
complex_name := object_name
host_identifier
A host identifier can be either a host name or a host group name.
host_identifier := host_name | hostgroup_name
hostgroup_name
A host group name is the name of a Sun Grid Engine host group described in hostgroup(5).
Note, to allow host group names easily be differed from host names a "@" prefix is used.
hostgroup_name := @object_name
host_name
A host name is the official name of a host node. Host names with a domain specification
such as "gridmaster.sun.com" are called fully-qualified host names, whereas host names
like "gridmaster" are called short host names. Note, there are the install time parameters
default_domain and ignore_fqdn (see bootstrap(5)) which affect how Sun Grid Engine deals
with host names in general.
jsv_url
The jsv_url has following format:
jsv_url := jsv_client_url | jsv_server_url
jsv_server_url := [ type ':' ] [ user '@' ] path
jsv_client_url := [ type ':' ] path
type := 'script'
In the moment only the type script is allowed. This means that path is either the path to
a script or to a binary application which will be used to instantiate a JSV process. The
type is optional till other types are supported by Sun Grid Engine.
Specifying a user is only allowed for server JSV's. Client JSV's will automatically be
started as submit user and server JSV's as admin user if not other specified.
The path has always to be the absolute path to a binary or application.
memory_specifier
Memory specifiers are positive decimal, hexadecimal or octal integer constants which
may be followed by a multiplier letter. Valid multiplier letters are k, K, m, M, g and
G, where k means multiply the value by 1000, K multiply by 1024, m multiply by
1000*1000, M multiply by 1024*1024, g multiply by 1000*1000*1000 and G multiply by
1024*1024*1024. If no multiplier is present, the value is just counted in bytes.
pe_name
A "pe_name" is the name of a Sun Grid Engine parallel environment described in sge_pe(5).
pe_name := object_name
project_name
A project name is the name of a Sun Grid Engine project described in project(5).
project_name := object_name
queue_name
A queue name is the name of a Sun Grid Engine queue described in queue_conf(5).
queue_name := object_name
time_specifier
A time specifier either consists of a positive decimal, hexadecimal or octal integer
constant, in which case the value is interpreted to be in seconds, or is built by 3
decimal integer numbers separated by colon signs where the first number counts the hours,
the second the minutes and the third the seconds. If a number would be zero it can be left
out but the separating colon must remain (e.g. 1:0:1 = 1::1 means 1 hours and 1 second).
user_name
A user name can be the name of a login(1) user or of the Sun Grid Engine user object
described in user(5).
user_name := object_name
userset_name
A user set name is the name of an Sun Grid Engine access list or department described in
access_list(5).
userset_name := object_name
object_name
An object name is a sequence of up to 512 ASCII string characters except "\n", "\t", "\r",
" ", "/", ":", "ยด", "\", "[", "]", "{", "}", "|", "(", ")", "@", "%", "," or the "
character itself.
MATCHING TYPES
These types are used for matching Sun Grid Engine configuration:
expression
A wildcard expression is a regular boolean expression that consists of one or more
patterns joined by boolean operators. When a wildcard expression is used, the following
definition applies:
expression= ["!"] ["("] valExp [")"] [ AND_OR expression ]*
valExp = pattern | expression
AND_OR = "&" | "|"
where:
"!" not operator -- negate the following pattern or expression
"&" and operator -- logically and with the following expression
"|" or operator -- logically or with the following expression
"(" open bracket -- begin an inner expression.
")" close bracket -- end an inner expression.
"pattern" see the pattern definition that's follow
The expression itself should be put inside quotes ('"') to ensure that clients receive the
complete expression.
e.g.
"(lx*|sol*)&*64*" any string beginning with either "lx" or
"sol" and containing "64"
"rh_3*&!rh_3.1" any string beginning with "rh_3", except
"rh_3.1"
pattern
When patterns are used the following definitions apply:
"*" matches any character and any number of characters
(between 0 and inv).
"?" matches any character. It cannot be no character
"." is the character ".". It has no other meaning
"\" escape character. "\\" = "\", "\*" = "*", "\?" = "?"
"[...]" specifies an array or a range of allowed
characters for one character at a specific position.
Character ranges may be specified using the a-z notation.
The caret symbol (^) is not interpreted as a logical
not; it is interpreted literally.
For more details please see
fnmatch(5)
The pattern itself should be put inside quotes ('"') to ensure that clients receive the
complete pattern.
range
The task range specifier has the form
n[-m[:s]][,n[-m[:s]], ...] or n[-m[:s]][ n[-m[:s]] ...]
and thus consists of a comma or blank separated list of range specifiers n[-m[:s]]. The
ranges are concatenated to the complete task id range. Each range may be a single number,
a simple range of the form n-m or a range with a step size.
wc_ar
The wildcard advance reservation (AR) specification is a placeholder for AR ids, AR names
including AR name patterns. An AR id always references one AR, while the name and pattern
might reference multiple ARs.
wc_ar := ar_id | ar_name | pattern
wc_ar_list
The wildcard advance reservation (AR) list specification allows to reference multiple ARs
with one command.
wc_ar_list := wc_ar [ , wc_ar , ...]
wc_host
A wildcard host specification (wc_host) is a wildcard expression which might match one or
more hosts used in the cluster. The first character of that string never begins with an
at-character ('@'), even if the expression begins with a wildcard character.
e.g.
* all hosts
a* all host beginning with an 'a'
wc_hostgroup
A wildcard hostgroup specification (wc_hostgroup) is a wildcard expression which might
match one or more hostgroups. The first character of that string is always an at-
character ('@').
More information concerning hostgroups can be found in hostgroup(5)
e.g.
@* all hostgroups in the cluster
@solaris the @solaris hostgroup
wc_job
The wildcard job specification is a placeholder for job ids, job names including job name
patterns. A job id always references one job, while the name and pattern might reference
multiple jobs.
wc_job := job-id | job-name | pattern
wc_job_range
The wildcard job range specification allows to reference specific array tasks for one or
multiple jobs. The job is referenced via wc_job and in addition gets a range specifier for
the array tasks.
wc_job_range := wc_job [ -t range]
wc_job_list
The wildcard job list specification allows to reference multiple jobs with one command.
wc_job_list := wc_job [ , wc_job , ...]
wc_job_range_list
The wildcard job range list (wc_job_range_list) is specified by one of the following
forms:
wc_job[ -t range][{, }wc_job[ -t range]{, }...]
If present, the task_range restricts the effect of the qmod operation to the array job
task range specified as suffix to the job id (see the -t option to qsub(1) for further
details on array jobs).
wc_qdomain
wc_qdomain := wc_cqueue "@" wc_hostgroup
A wildcard expression queue domain specification (wc_qdomain) starts with a wildcard
expression cluster queue name (wc_cqueue) followed by an at-character '@' and a wildcard
expression hostgroup specification (wc_hostgroup).
wc_qdomain are used to address a group of queue instances. All queue instances residing
on a hosts which is part of matching hostgroups will be addressed. Please note, that
wc_hostgroup always begins with an at-character.
e.g.
*@@* all queue instances whose underlying
host is part of at least one hostgroup
a*@@e* all queue instances begins with a whose underlying
host is part of at least one hostgroup begin with e
*@@solaris all queue instances on hosts part of
the @solaris hostgroup
wc_cqueue
A wildcard expression cluster queue specification (wc_cqueue) is a wildcard expression
which might match one or more cluster queues used in the cluster. That string never
contains an at-character ('@'), even if the expression begins with a wildcard character.
e.g.
* all cluster queues
a* all cluster queues beginning with an 'a'
a*&!adam all cluster queues beginning with an 'a',but not adam
wc_qinstance
wc_qinstance := wc_cqueue "@" wc_host
A wildcard expression queue instance specification (wc_qinstance) starts with a wildcard
expression cluster queue name (wc_cqueue) followed by an at-character '@' and a wildcard
expression hostname (wc_host).
wc_qinstance expressions are used to address a group of queue instances whose underlying
hostname matches the given expression. Please note that the first character of wc_host
does never match the at-character '@'.
e.g.
*@* all queue instances in the cluster
*@b* all queue instances whose
hostname begins with a 'b'
*@b*|c* all queue instances whose
hostname begins with a 'b' or 'c'
wc_queue
wc_queue := wc_cqueue | wc_qdomain | wc_qinstance
A wildcard queue expression (wc_queue) might either be a wildcard expression cluster queue
specification (wc_cqueue) or a wildcard expression queue domain specification (wc_qdomain)
or a wildcard expression queue instance specification (wc_qinstance).
e.g.
big_*1 cluster queues which begin with
"big_" and end with "1"
big_*&!*1 cluster queues which begin with
"big_" ,but does not end with "1"
*@fangorn all qinstances residing on host
fangorn
wc_queue_list
wc_queue_list := wc_queue ["," wc_queue "," ...]
Comma separated list of wc_queue elements.
e.g.
big, medium_*@@sol*, *@fangorn.sun.com
wc_user
A wildcard user name pattern is either a wildcard user name specification or a full user
name.
wc_user := user_name | pattern
wc_user_list
A list of user names.
wc_user_list := wc_user [ , wc_user , ...]
wc_project
A wildcard project name pattern is either a wildcard project name specification or a full
project name.
wc_project := project | pattern
wc_pe_name
A wildcard parallel environment name pattern is either a wildcard pe name specification or
a full pe name.
wc_pe_name := pe_name | pattern
parallel_env n[-[m]]|[-]m,...
Parallel programming environment (PE) to select for an AR. The range descriptor behind the
PE name specifies the number of parallel processes to be run. Sun Grid Engine will
allocate the appropriate resources as available. The sge_pe(5) manual page contains
information about the definition of PEs and about how to obtain a list of currently valid
PEs.
You can specify a PE name which uses the wildcard character, "*". Thus the request "pvm*"
will match any parallel environment with a name starting with the string "pvm". In the
case of multiple parallel environments whose names match the name string, the parallel
environment with the most available slots is chosen.
The range specification is a list of range expressions of the form "n-m", where n and m
are positive, non-zero integers. The form "n" is equivalent to "n-n". The form "-m" is
equivalent to "1-m". The form "n-" is equivalent to "n-infinity". The range
specification is processed as follows: The largest number of queues requested is checked
first. If enough queues meeting the specified attribute list are available, all are
reserved. If not, the next smaller number of queues is checked, and so forth.
date_time
The date_time value must conform to [[CC]]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS], where:
e.g.
CC denotes the century in 2 digits.
YY denotes the year in 2 digits.
MM denotes the month in 2 digits.
DD denotes the day in 2 digits.
hh denotes the hour in 2 digits.
mm denotes the minute in 2 digits.
ss denotes the seconds in 2 digits (default 00).
time
The time value must conform to hh:mm:ss, or seconds where:
e.g.
hh denotes the hour in 2 digits.
mm denotes the minute in 2 digits.
ss denotes the seconds in 2 digits (default 00).
seconds is a number of seconds (is used for duration values)
If any of the optional date fields are omitted, the corresponding value of the
current date is assumed. If CC is not specified, a YY of < 70 means 20YY.
Use of this option may cause unexpected results if the clocks of the hosts in the
Sun Grid Engine pool are out of sync. Also, the proper behavior of this option very
much depends on the correct setting of the appropriate timezone, e.g. in the TZ
environment variable (see date(1) for details), when the Sun Grid Engine daemons
sge_qmaster(8) and sge_execd(8) are invoked.
name
The name may be any arbitrary alphanumeric ASCII string, but may not contain "\n", "\t",
"\r", "/", ":", "@", "\", "*", or "?".
SEE ALSO
qacct(1), qconf(1), qquota(1), qsub(1), qrsub(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright: 2004-2007 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.