torque Cookbook

This cookbook installs and configures a torque (PBS) cluster.

Requirements

Platforms

The recipes work on the following tested platforms:

• Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04
• CentOS 6.5

It may work on other platforms or versions of the above platforms with or without modification.

Cookbooks

The following Opscode cookbook are dependencies:

• yum-epel (>= 0.3.6)

Attributes

All of the attributes has default values.

default['torque']['etc_dir'] - Location of "server_name" file in all distros. Mom config dir location in Red Hat family.
default['torque']['var_dir'] - Torque service location.
default['torque']['publickey'] - Torque head stores the public key of the service user in this attribute.
default['torque']['user'] - Torque username. Root is not allowed.

PBS queue parameters - for the details, please contact the torque documantation at "http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com".

default['torque']['manager_host']
default['torque']['acl_hosts']
default['torque']['server_scheduling']
default['torque']['keep_completed']
default['torque']['mom_job_sync']
default['torque']['queue']
default['torque']['queue_type']
default['torque']['started']
default['torque']['enabled']
default['torque']['walltime']
default['torque']['walltime']
default['torque']['default_queue']
default['torque']['auto_node_np']

Usage

torque::default

Default recipe installs the torque commons and create a user.
Torque head and compute node recipe includes the default one
so it should not be used alone.

torque::head_node

Head_node recipe installs the torque server and client packages and
configures the job queue. It generates a key pair for the torque
user and publishes the public key. It collects the compute nodes
in the same environment and joins them to the cluster.
Importan: If a compute node appears or leaves, the chef-client sould be
issued again.

torque::compute_node

Compute_node recipe installs the torque mom package, prepare connection
to the torque cluster and set up the torque user.
Important: It requires a head node in the same environment.

License & Authors

• Author:: Sandor Acs (sandoracs1986@gmail.com)
• Author:: Mark Gergely (markgergely@me.com)

Copyright 2014, MTA SZTAKI

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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