Example of configuration:

TORQUE.qcommands_path='/usr/bin'
TORQUE.server = "my_grid.remote.net"
job = TORQUE::Qsub.new  m: "abe", name:"FirstTest", shell: '/bin/bash', ppn: 4
job.script = "echo `hostname`; sleep 1000"
job.submit
stats=TORQUE::Qstat.new

# get all stats on all jobs
stats.query

# select stats from only the submitted job
stat.query job_id: job.id

# it is also possible to get the stats from a single job
job.stat

Torque_Rm uses Rye as interface with a local/remote computer/server, using ssh, so every command is a executed with ssh. Rye also guarantees a certain level of security disabling dangerous operations like moving, deleting files or traversing recursevely a directory. Obviously this feature can be disabled, but for now it is the default way Torque_Rm operates.

By default torque_rm creates/transfers files in the user home directory ~. It's possible to change this default behaviour setting an internal variable when a job is created on managed. Considering the example above configuring the wrinting directory before submitting the job:

job.root_directory = '/my/personal/path'

or

job.working_directory = '/my/personal/path'

root has precedence on working directory. It is possible to configure the root/working directory at the time of creation of the new job using the usual hash key/value convention.

:root_directory => '/my/personal/path'

or

:working_directory => '/my/personal/path'

TORQUE_RM uses yaml configuration, user can create such a file in his/her home directory:

touch ~/.torque_rm.yaml

and fill it with similar details:

---
:hostname: deep.space.nine
:path: /usr/bin

It is possible to save in a configuration file server and path. User can save a configuration file:

TORQUE.qcommands_path='/usr/bin'
TORQUE.server = "my_grid.remote.net"
TORQUE.save_config

it will create a YAML file ~/.torque_rm.yaml in the user home directory. In case the user wants to save the configuration in a custom location

TORQUE.save_config "file_name"

Read a configuration from the dafult location ~/.torque_rm.yaml

TORQUE.load_config

In case the user has a custom file

TORQUE.load_config "file_name"

rhostname = TORQUE::Qsub.new do |job|
        job.m = "abe"
        job.name = "FirstTest"
        job.shell = '/bin/bash'
        job.ppn = 4
        job.script = "echo `hostname`; sleep 1000"
      end
rhostname.submit
rhostname.stat

When a job is submitted, is possible to get some stats

[{:job_id=>"2750.sun.universe.space"@1387,
  :job_name=>"FirstTest"@1421,
  :job_owner=>"[email protected]"@1447,
  :job_state=>"Q"@1489,
  :queue=>"bio"@1503,
  :server=>"sun.universe.space"@1520,
  :checkpoint=>"u"@1551,
  :ctime=>"Tue Aug 27 15:56:41 2013"@1565,
  :error_path=>
   "sun.universe.space:/home/helios/FirstTest.e2750"@1607,
  :hold_types=>"n"@1689,
  :join_path=>"n"@1707,
  :keep_files=>"n"@1726,
  :mail_points=>"abe"@1746,
  :mtime=>"Tue Aug 27 15:56:41 2013"@1762,
  :output_path=>
   "deep.space.nine:/home/helios/FirstTest.o2750"@1805,
  :priority=>"0"@1885,
  :qtime=>"Tue Aug 27 15:56:41 2013"@1899,
  :rerunable=>"True"@1940,
  :resource_list_nodect=>"1"@1972,
  :resource_list_nodes=>"1:ppn=4"@2000,
  :shell_path_list=>"/bin/bash"@2030,
  :variable_list=>
   "PBS_O_QUEUE=bio,PBS_O_HOST=deep.space.nine,PBS_O_HOME=/home/helios,PBS_O_LANG=it_IT.UTF-8,PBS_O_LOGNAME=helios,PBS_O_PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/home/helios/.rvm/bin,PBS_O_MAIL=/var/mail/helios,PBS_O_SHELL=/bin/bash,PBS_SERVER=spark,PBS_O_WORKDIR=/home/helios\n"@2060,
  :etime=>"Tue Aug 27 15:56:41 2013"@2456,
  :submit_args=>"FirstTest.qsub"@2499,
  :fault_tolerant=>"False"@2535,
:submit_host=>"sun.universe.space"@2559}]

directly from the job

job.stat

or by requesting the information using the specific object

stats=TORQUE::Qstat.new

# select stats from only the submitted job
stat.query job_id: job.id

it will return an hash but is also possible to return the raw string from TORQUE/PBS

stat.query job_id: job.id, type: :raw   

Quering multiple jobs at the same time is possible as well (note the 's' after 'id'):

stat.query job_ids: ["2751.sun.universe.space","2752.sun.universe.space","2754.sun.universe.space","2755.sun.universe.space"]

From a qsub object if submitted:

job.rm

Directly from PBS:

TORQUE::Qdel.rm("2750.sun.universe.space")

All objects returned from TORQUE_RM_REST are in JSON format.

/qstat Returns an Array of Hash with the following keys, if available "job_id","job_name","job_owner","resources_used_cput","resources_used_mem","resources_used_vmem","resources_used_walltime","job_state","queue","server","checkpoint","ctime","error_path","exec_host","exec_port","hold_types","join_path","keep_files","mail_points","mail_users","mtime","output_path","priority","qtime","rerunable","resource_list","session_id","shell_path_list","variable_list","etime","exit_status","submit_args","start_time","start_count","fault_tolerant","comp_time","job_radix","total_runtime","submit_host" .

/qstat/fields Returns an Array of String, the available fields for a single qstat query.

/qstat/all/:field Return an Array of Strings, each String is the field requested by the user. If the field requested is not valid, it will return 404

/qstat/:job_id Returns an Hash with main key job and the JSON conversion of a TORQUE::Qstat::Job object. If the job_id does not exist will return 404

/qstat/job/fields Returns and Hash {"job_fields":["job_id","job_name","job_owner","resources_used_cput","resources_used_mem","resources_used_vmem","resources_used_walltime","job_state","queue","server","checkpoint","ctime","error_path","exec_host","exec_port","hold_types","join_path","keep_files","mail_points","mail_users","mtime","output_path","priority","qtime","rerunable","resource_list","session_id","shell_path_list","variable_list","etime","exit_status","submit_args","start_time","start_count","fault_tolerant","comp_time","job_radix","total_runtime","submit_host","is_runnig?","is_queued?","is_exited?","is_completed?","time","memory","node"]}

/qstat/:job_id/:field Returns and Hash with a single key which is the required field. If the job_id or field do not exist will return 404

/qstat/:job_id/del Removes the job_id from the queue. If the job_id does not exist will return 404

To perform a query or call a fucntion use curl setting the content type. Extension .json is not considering for now, why? Read What-is-the-correct-json-content-type discussion on Stackoverflow

curl -H "Content-type: application/json" "http://localhost:4567/qstat"

A web application is under development and it will let you interact with you TORQUE/PBS server in a more fancy way, be patient and give us your feedback or request functionalities. A list of supported html pages:

• get: /qstat

Sinatra is the low level framework used for developing the REST API and the web infrastructure. Twitter Bootstrap is used to make the web app nice and fancy.

From the command line

torque_rm_rest

click here

Remember to configure by hand the ~/.torque_rm.yaml as documented at the beginning

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
• Fork the project.
• Start a feature/bugfix branch.
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
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Copyright (c) 2013 Raoul Jean Pierre Bonnal. See LICENSE.txt for further details.