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I have resources (e.g. GPU) I can only use once at a time. When performing experiments I always need to know on time of a batch files creation, what experiments I want to execute in the future. But I am a person who likes to change its mind, but I hate to quit jobs.



Is there something like Slurm, that runs only on one machine, which I can pass jobs to a queue and remove them if necessary?



I am looking for applications that either work on GPU load (in contrast to batch/at that works on CPU load) or executes the jobs sequentially. This means that only one job runs at a time on one resource (GPU) and the next one starts when the execution of the previous job finished. I also want to be able to manage the queue in order to give jobs a higher priority or delete them.






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  • batch? It's very simple, and nothing like SLURM, but it'll be installed already.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 1 at 14:22











  • with atd (batch etc.) I can only set a load threashold for the cpu, but not for the gpu. Furthermore I found no solution for executing a queue sequentialy (Job 1 finishes, Job 2 starts, ...)

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 12:58











  • For sequential jobs, submit them as one single job. No, you can probably not get batch to care about the GPU, only the general system load.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:00











  • But I dont want to add them as a single job. This does not provide any advantage compared to a batchfile.

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 13:02











  • Hmm... If you want to run jobs sequentially, then why bother with SLURM?

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:05


















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I have resources (e.g. GPU) I can only use once at a time. When performing experiments I always need to know on time of a batch files creation, what experiments I want to execute in the future. But I am a person who likes to change its mind, but I hate to quit jobs.



Is there something like Slurm, that runs only on one machine, which I can pass jobs to a queue and remove them if necessary?



I am looking for applications that either work on GPU load (in contrast to batch/at that works on CPU load) or executes the jobs sequentially. This means that only one job runs at a time on one resource (GPU) and the next one starts when the execution of the previous job finished. I also want to be able to manage the queue in order to give jobs a higher priority or delete them.






linux scheduling application







share|improve this question

























  • batch? It's very simple, and nothing like SLURM, but it'll be installed already.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 1 at 14:22











  • with atd (batch etc.) I can only set a load threashold for the cpu, but not for the gpu. Furthermore I found no solution for executing a queue sequentialy (Job 1 finishes, Job 2 starts, ...)

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 12:58











  • For sequential jobs, submit them as one single job. No, you can probably not get batch to care about the GPU, only the general system load.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:00











  • But I dont want to add them as a single job. This does not provide any advantage compared to a batchfile.

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 13:02











  • Hmm... If you want to run jobs sequentially, then why bother with SLURM?

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:05
















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I have resources (e.g. GPU) I can only use once at a time. When performing experiments I always need to know on time of a batch files creation, what experiments I want to execute in the future. But I am a person who likes to change its mind, but I hate to quit jobs.



Is there something like Slurm, that runs only on one machine, which I can pass jobs to a queue and remove them if necessary?



I am looking for applications that either work on GPU load (in contrast to batch/at that works on CPU load) or executes the jobs sequentially. This means that only one job runs at a time on one resource (GPU) and the next one starts when the execution of the previous job finished. I also want to be able to manage the queue in order to give jobs a higher priority or delete them.






linux scheduling application







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I have resources (e.g. GPU) I can only use once at a time. When performing experiments I always need to know on time of a batch files creation, what experiments I want to execute in the future. But I am a person who likes to change its mind, but I hate to quit jobs.



Is there something like Slurm, that runs only on one machine, which I can pass jobs to a queue and remove them if necessary?



I am looking for applications that either work on GPU load (in contrast to batch/at that works on CPU load) or executes the jobs sequentially. This means that only one job runs at a time on one resource (GPU) and the next one starts when the execution of the previous job finished. I also want to be able to manage the queue in order to give jobs a higher priority or delete them.






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  • batch? It's very simple, and nothing like SLURM, but it'll be installed already.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 1 at 14:22











  • with atd (batch etc.) I can only set a load threashold for the cpu, but not for the gpu. Furthermore I found no solution for executing a queue sequentialy (Job 1 finishes, Job 2 starts, ...)

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 12:58











  • For sequential jobs, submit them as one single job. No, you can probably not get batch to care about the GPU, only the general system load.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:00











  • But I dont want to add them as a single job. This does not provide any advantage compared to a batchfile.

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 13:02











  • Hmm... If you want to run jobs sequentially, then why bother with SLURM?

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:05





















  • batch? It's very simple, and nothing like SLURM, but it'll be installed already.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 1 at 14:22











  • with atd (batch etc.) I can only set a load threashold for the cpu, but not for the gpu. Furthermore I found no solution for executing a queue sequentialy (Job 1 finishes, Job 2 starts, ...)

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 12:58











  • For sequential jobs, submit them as one single job. No, you can probably not get batch to care about the GPU, only the general system load.

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:00











  • But I dont want to add them as a single job. This does not provide any advantage compared to a batchfile.

    – Martin
    Feb 4 at 13:02











  • Hmm... If you want to run jobs sequentially, then why bother with SLURM?

    – Kusalananda
    Feb 4 at 13:05



















batch? It's very simple, and nothing like SLURM, but it'll be installed already.

– Kusalananda
Feb 1 at 14:22





batch? It's very simple, and nothing like SLURM, but it'll be installed already.

– Kusalananda
Feb 1 at 14:22













with atd (batch etc.) I can only set a load threashold for the cpu, but not for the gpu. Furthermore I found no solution for executing a queue sequentialy (Job 1 finishes, Job 2 starts, ...)

– Martin
Feb 4 at 12:58





with atd (batch etc.) I can only set a load threashold for the cpu, but not for the gpu. Furthermore I found no solution for executing a queue sequentialy (Job 1 finishes, Job 2 starts, ...)

– Martin
Feb 4 at 12:58













For sequential jobs, submit them as one single job. No, you can probably not get batch to care about the GPU, only the general system load.

– Kusalananda
Feb 4 at 13:00





For sequential jobs, submit them as one single job. No, you can probably not get batch to care about the GPU, only the general system load.

– Kusalananda
Feb 4 at 13:00













But I dont want to add them as a single job. This does not provide any advantage compared to a batchfile.

– Martin
Feb 4 at 13:02





But I dont want to add them as a single job. This does not provide any advantage compared to a batchfile.

– Martin
Feb 4 at 13:02













Hmm... If you want to run jobs sequentially, then why bother with SLURM?

– Kusalananda
Feb 4 at 13:05







Hmm... If you want to run jobs sequentially, then why bother with SLURM?

– Kusalananda
Feb 4 at 13:05












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Would it be acceptable to have the jobs run through a simple queue manager of your own?



#!/bin/bash



while ! mkdir /tmp/my_gpu_lockdir; do

    sleep $((RANDOM))

done



trap 'rmdir /tmp/my_gnu_lockdir' ERR EXIT



.... your actual task here ...





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  • I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

    – Martin
    Feb 5 at 9:53











  • You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

    – tripleee
    Feb 5 at 9:56



















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I found a solution that perfectly fits my needs. I have the issue, that I have only one GPU, but want to have a queue to add jobs to, see their status and, if needed, delete it from the queue again.



After some research on Google, I found task-spooler (tsp). With this command-line tool, it is fairly easy to add jobs to the queue and follow their results. So far I only use one queue, but it is also scale-able to more.






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    Would it be acceptable to have the jobs run through a simple queue manager of your own?



    #!/bin/bash
    

    
while ! mkdir /tmp/my_gpu_lockdir; do
    
    sleep $((RANDOM))
    
done
    

    
trap 'rmdir /tmp/my_gnu_lockdir' ERR EXIT
    

    
.... your actual task here ...





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    • I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

      – Martin
      Feb 5 at 9:53











    • You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

      – tripleee
      Feb 5 at 9:56
















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    Would it be acceptable to have the jobs run through a simple queue manager of your own?



    #!/bin/bash
    

    
while ! mkdir /tmp/my_gpu_lockdir; do
    
    sleep $((RANDOM))
    
done
    

    
trap 'rmdir /tmp/my_gnu_lockdir' ERR EXIT
    

    
.... your actual task here ...





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    • I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

      – Martin
      Feb 5 at 9:53











    • You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

      – tripleee
      Feb 5 at 9:56














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    Would it be acceptable to have the jobs run through a simple queue manager of your own?



    #!/bin/bash
    

    
while ! mkdir /tmp/my_gpu_lockdir; do
    
    sleep $((RANDOM))
    
done
    

    
trap 'rmdir /tmp/my_gnu_lockdir' ERR EXIT
    

    
.... your actual task here ...





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    Would it be acceptable to have the jobs run through a simple queue manager of your own?



    #!/bin/bash
    

    
while ! mkdir /tmp/my_gpu_lockdir; do
    
    sleep $((RANDOM))
    
done
    

    
trap 'rmdir /tmp/my_gnu_lockdir' ERR EXIT
    

    
.... your actual task here ...






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    • I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

      – Martin
      Feb 5 at 9:53











    • You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

      – tripleee
      Feb 5 at 9:56



















    • I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

      – Martin
      Feb 5 at 9:53











    • You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

      – tripleee
      Feb 5 at 9:56

















    I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

    – Martin
    Feb 5 at 9:53





    I would prefer that the queuing system takes care of that. Additionally, I can not see weather this is still pending, I can't change the priority and so on.. But a good quick-shot.

    – Martin
    Feb 5 at 9:53













    You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

    – tripleee
    Feb 5 at 9:56





    You could perhaps wrap this with batch to have the job resubmit itself if the lock folder exists, and then use the regular atq / atrm for managing the queue.

    – tripleee
    Feb 5 at 9:56













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    I found a solution that perfectly fits my needs. I have the issue, that I have only one GPU, but want to have a queue to add jobs to, see their status and, if needed, delete it from the queue again.



    After some research on Google, I found task-spooler (tsp). With this command-line tool, it is fairly easy to add jobs to the queue and follow their results. So far I only use one queue, but it is also scale-able to more.






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      I found a solution that perfectly fits my needs. I have the issue, that I have only one GPU, but want to have a queue to add jobs to, see their status and, if needed, delete it from the queue again.



      After some research on Google, I found task-spooler (tsp). With this command-line tool, it is fairly easy to add jobs to the queue and follow their results. So far I only use one queue, but it is also scale-able to more.






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        I found a solution that perfectly fits my needs. I have the issue, that I have only one GPU, but want to have a queue to add jobs to, see their status and, if needed, delete it from the queue again.



        After some research on Google, I found task-spooler (tsp). With this command-line tool, it is fairly easy to add jobs to the queue and follow their results. So far I only use one queue, but it is also scale-able to more.






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        I found a solution that perfectly fits my needs. I have the issue, that I have only one GPU, but want to have a queue to add jobs to, see their status and, if needed, delete it from the queue again.



        After some research on Google, I found task-spooler (tsp). With this command-line tool, it is fairly easy to add jobs to the queue and follow their results. So far I only use one queue, but it is also scale-able to more.







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