Torque

A hub for notes about torque.

Installing torque

• • (references: https://www.webmo.net/support/torque.html, http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com/torque/6-0-1/help.htm#topics/hpcSuiteInstall/manual/1-installing/installingTorque.htm)
  • stop and disable the local firewalld (service stop and service disable)
  • download tarball from adaptive computing (v6.0.0.1), unpack, cd
  • ./configure && make && make install
  • check file contents of /var/spool/torque/server_name
  • add trqauthd to system startup and start
  • ./torque.setup root
  • setup /var/spool/torque/server_priv/nodes #see http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com/torque/6-0-1/help.htm#topics/torque/1-installConfig/specifyComputeNodes.htm
  • add pbs_server to system startup and start
  • add pbs_sched to system startup and start
  • build the client packages and install # both mom and clients as per the webmo link
  • qmgr -c “set server scheduling = True”
  • qmgr -c “set queue batch resources_max.walltime = 1000:00:00” # should this be "set server" also?
  • test with qsub -I, qsub --version, and pbsnodes -a (all compute nodes in the last command should be listed as "up")
  • reboot server and test again

Uninstalling Torque from modules

Torque should always be a system program, not a module. These are the steps for pollock, as done by Charlie. Substitute appropriate server names, and note that different systems have different ways of configuring software to launch on system start.

• uninstall torque from modules
  • Make a tarball of /mounts/pollock/software/torque and save it to the root or sysadmin directory (this will save you problems)
  • rm -rf /mounts/pollock/software/Modules/MODVER/modulefiles/torque
  • rm -rf /mounts/pollock/software/torque
  • check with “module avail”

• uninstall boost from modules
  • as above with s/torque/boost/

• install torque dependencies
  • yum install libxml2-devel openssl-devel gcc gcc-c++ boost boost-devel

• (aside, install locate, yum install mlocate and updatedb as root)

• (aside, fix modules install, cleanup /etc/bashrc, profile, and profile.d/modules.sh; this fixed the MANPATH problem too)

• (aside, fix the python 3.5 install, s/bronte/pollock in setup files, change to correct version (3.6), reset paths)