[slurm-users] slurm array with non-numeric index values

[c b]

Thank you Michael/Willy/Jeffrey - these example scripts and the template
were very helpful.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 5:24 PM Jeffrey T Frey <frey at udel.edu> wrote:

> On our HPC systems we have a lot of users attempting to organize job
> arrays for varying purposes -- parameter scans, SSMD (Single-Script,
> Multiple Datasets).  We eventually wrote an abstract utility to try to help
> them with the process:
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> https://github.com/jtfrey/job-templating-tool
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> May be of some use to you.
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> On Jul 15, 2020, at 16:13 , c b <breedthoughts.www at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm trying to run an embarrassingly parallel experiment, with 500+ tasks
> that all differ in one parameter.  e.g.:
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> job 1 - script.py foo
> job 2 - script.py bar
> job 3 - script.py baz
> and so on.
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> This seems like a case where having a slurm array hold all of these jobs
> would help, so I could just submit one job to my cluster instead of 500
> individual jobs.  It seems like sarray is only set up for varying an
> integer index parameter.  How would i do this for non-numeric values (say,
> if the parameter I'm varying is a string in a given list) ?
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