[SCore-users] no output with qsub

[Atsushi HORI]

Hi,

>I had earlier asked about a different problem, which
>has not been answered yet.

Our problem is that none of us is the expert of PBS.

>When a long job is run the output is produced only
>after the job finishes. Is there a way to view the
>output file while the job is running.

>We had to reinstall the OS on the cluster.
>Now when I submit a job using qsub, providing an
>output path and file with PBS -o option, there is no
>output.

My understanding on PBS is that the standard and/or error output of a 
job is/are redirected to some file(s) on a compute host. When the job 
finished, the output file(s) is/are copied to the host where the qsub 
command is invoked by using the rcp command. Thus the output can only 
be viewed when the job terminates.

I asked to my colleague who is an expert on PBS about your problem. 
His answer was that even with the -o option the situation is almost 
the same, I mean, the output is available only when the job terminates. 

Hi also pointed out that the output file specified with the -o option 
must be located on NFS file filesystem.

Hope this will help you.

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Atsushi HORI
Swimmy Software, Inc.