SGE Job Manager patch

We should come on this page with a draft that we want to send to the VDT guys about the SGE Job Manager.

• Missing environment variables definition
  
  • In the BEGIN section check if $SGE_ROOT, $SGE_CELL and the commands ($qsub, $qstat, etc) are defined properly
  • in the SUBMIT, POOL and CLEAR sections, locate the line

    $ENV{"SGE_ROOT"} = $SGE_ROOT;
    

    and add the line

    $ENV{"SGE_CELL"} = $SGE_CELL;
    

• Bug finding the correct job id when clearing jobs
  • in the CLEAR section, locate the line

    system("$qdel $job_id > /dev/null 2 > /dev/null");

    and replace for the following block

    $ENV{"SGE_ROOT"} = $SGE_ROOT;
    $ENV{"SGE_CELL"} = $SGE_CELL;
    $job_id =~ /(.*)\|(.*)\|(.*)/;
    $job_id = $1;
    system("$qdel $job_id > /dev/null 2 > /dev/null");

• SGE Job Manager modifies definitions of both the standard output and standard error file names by appending .real. This procedure fails when a user specifies /dev/null for either of those files. The problem happens twice - once starting at line 318

    #####
    # Where to write output and error?
    #
    if(($description->jobtype() eq "single") && ($description->count() > 1))
    {
      #####
      # It's a single job and we use job arrays
      #
      $sge_job_script->print("#\$ -o "
                             . $description->stdout() . ".\$TASK_ID\n");
      $sge_job_script->print("#\$ -e "
                             . $description->stderr() . ".\$TASK_ID\n");
    }
    else
    {
        # [dwm] Don't use real output paths; copy the output there later.
        #       Globus doesn't seem to handle streaming of the output
        #       properly and can result in the output being lost.
        # FIXME: We would prefer continuous streaming.  Try to determine
        #       precisely what's failing so that we can fix the problem.
        #       See Globus bug #1288.
      $sge_job_script->print("#\$ -o " . $description->stdout() . ".real\n");
      $sge_job_script->print("#\$ -e " . $description->stderr() . ".real\n");
    }
 

and then again at line 659:

      if(($description->jobtype() eq "single") && ($description->count() > 1))
      #####
      # Jobtype is single and count>1. Therefore, we used job arrays. We
      # need to merge individual output/error files into one.
      #
      {
        # [dwm] Use append, not overwrite to work around file streaming issues.
        system ("$cat $job_out.* >> $job_out");
        system ("$cat $job_err.* >> $job_err");
      }
      else
      {
        # [dwm] We still need to append the job output to the GASS cache file.
        #       We can't let SGE do this directly because it appears to
        #       *overwrite* the file, not append to it -- which the Globus
        #       file streaming components don't seem to handle properly.
        #       So append the output manually now.
        system("$cat $job_out.real >> $job_out");
      }

• The snipped of code above is also missing a statement for the standard error. At the end instead of:

        #       So append the output manually now.
        system("$cat $job_out.real >> $job_out");
      }

it should read:

        #       So append the output manually now.
        system("$cat $job_out.real >> $job_out");
        system("$cat $job_err.real >> $job_err");
      }

• Additionally, if deployed in a CHOS environment, the job manager should be modified with the following additions at line 567:

    $ENV{"SGE_ROOT"} = $SGE_ROOT;
    if ( -r "$ENV{HOME}/.chos" ){
      $chos=`cat $ENV{HOME}/.chos`;
      $chos=~s/\n.*//;
      $ENV{CHOS}=$chos;
    }

gridftp update for VDT 1.3.9 or VDT 1.3.10

To install the updated gridftp server that includes a fix for secondary group membership:

for VDT 1.3.9 (which is what I got with OSG 0.4.0) in the OSG/VDT directory, do:

pacman -get http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_139_cache:Globus-Updates

This nominally makes your VDT installation 1.3.9c, though it didn't update my vdt-version.info file accordingly -- it still says 1.3.9b

for VDT 1.3.10, similar installation should work:

pacman -get http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_1310_cache:Globus-Updates