Configure Torque

A YAML cluster configuration file for a Torque/PBS resource manager on an HPC cluster looks like:

# /etc/ood/config/clusters.d/my_cluster.yml
---
v2:
  metadata:
    title: "My Cluster"
  login:
    host: "my_cluster.my_center.edu"
  job:
    adapter: "torque"
    host: "my_cluster-batch.my_center.edu"
    lib: "/path/to/torque/lib"
    bin: "/path/to/torque/bin"
  # bin_overrides:
      # qsub: "/usr/local/bin/qsub"

with the following configuration options:

adapter

This is set to torque.

host

The host of the Torque batch server.

lib

The path to the Torque client libraries.

bin

The path to the Torque client binaries.

bin_overrides

Replacements/wrappers for Torque’s job submission and control clients. Optional

The Torque adapter uses the foreign function interface interact with libtorque.so and so it is only possible to override qsub.

Warning

The corresponding cluster’s batch server will need to be configured with the Open OnDemand server as a valid submit_host to allow the Job Composer App to submit jobs to it.