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NAME
condor_qsub - HTCondor Manual
Queue jobs that use PBS/SGE-style submission
SYNOPSIS
condor_qsub [--version]
condor_qsub [Specific options ] [Directory options ] [Environmental options ] [File options ]
[Notification options ] [Resource options ] [Status options ] [Submission options ] commandfile
DESCRIPTION
condor_qsub submits an HTCondor job. This job is specified in a PBS/Torque style or an SGE style.
condor_qsub permits the submission of dependent jobs without the need to specify the full dependency
graph at submission time. Doing things this way is neither as efficient as HTCondor's DAGMan, nor as
functional as SGE's qsub or qalter. condor_qsub serves as a minimal translator to be able to use
software originally written to interact with PBS, Torque, and SGE in an HTCondor pool.
condor_qsub attempts to behave like qsub. Less than half of the qsub functionality is implemented. Option
descriptions describe the differences between the behavior of qsub and condor_qsub. qsub options not
listed here are not supported. Some concepts present in PBS and SGE do not apply to HTCondor, and so
these options are not implemented.
For a full listing of qsub options, please see
POSIX : http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/qsub.html
SGE : http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/htmlman/htmlman1/qsub.html
PBS/Torque
: http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com/torque/4-1-3/Content/topics/commands/qsub.htm
condor_qsub accepts either command line options or the single file, commandfile, that contains all of the
commands.
condor_qsub does the opposite of job submission within the grid universe batch grid type, which takes
HTCondor jobs submitted with HTCondor syntax and submits them to PBS, SGE, or LSF.
OPTIONS
-a date_time
(Submission option) Specify a deferred execution date and time. The PBS/Torque syntax of
date_time is a string in the form [[[[CC]YY]MM]DD]hhmm[.SS]. The portions of this string which
are optional are CC, YY, MM, DD, and SS. For SGE, MM and DD are not optional. For PBS, MM and
DD are optional. condor_qsub follows the PBS style.
-A account_string
(Status option) Uses group accounting where the string account_string is the accounting group
associated with this job. Unlike SGE, there is no default group of "sge".
-b y|n (Submission option) Using the SGE definition of its -b option, a value of y causes condor_qsub
to not parse the file for additional condor_qsub commands. The default value is n. If the
command line argument -f filename is also specified, it negates a value of y.
-condor-keep-files
(Specific option) Directs HTCondor to not remove temporary files generated by condor_qsub, such
as HTCondor submit files and sentinel jobs. These temporary files may be important for
debugging.
-cwd (Directory option) Specifies the initial directory in which the job will run to be the current
directory from which the job was submitted. This sets initialdir for condor_submit.
-d path or -wd path
(Directory option) Specifies the initial directory in which the job will run to be path. This
sets initialdir for condor_submit.
-e filename
(File option) Specifies the condor_submit command error, the file where stderr is written. If
not specified, set to the default name of `` <commandfile>.e<ClusterId>``, where <commandfile>
is the condor_qsub argument, and `` <ClusterId>`` is the job attribute ClusterId assigned for
the job.
-f qsub_file
(Specific option) Parse qsub_file to search for and set additional condor_submit commands.
Within the file, commands will appear as #PBS or #SGE. condor_qsub will parse the batch file
listed as qsub_file.
-h (Status option) Placed submitted job directly into the hold state.
-help (Specific option) Print usage information and exit.
-hold_jid <jid>
(Status option) Submits a job in the hold state. This job is released only when a previously
submitted job, identified by its cluster ID as <jid>, exits successfully. Successful completion
is defined as not exiting with exit code 100. In implementation, there are three jobs that
define this SGE feature. The first job is the previously submitted job. The second job is the
newly submitted one that is waiting for the first to finish successfully. The third job is what
SGE calls a sentinel job; this is an HTCondor local universe job that watches the history for
the first job's exit code. This third job will exit once it has seen the exit code and, for a
successful termination of the first job, run condor_release on the second job. If the first job
is an array job, the second job will only be released after all individual jobs of the first
job have completed.
-i [hostname:]filename
(File option) Specifies the condor_submit command input, the file from which stdin is read.
-j characters
(File option) Acceptable characters for this option are e, o, and n. The only sequence that is
relevant is eo; it specifies that both standard output and standard error are to be sent to the
same file. The file will be the one specified by the -o option, if both the -o and -e options
exist. The file will be the one specified by the -e option, if only the -e option is provided.
If neither the -o nor the -e options are provided, the file will be the default used for the -o
option.
-l resource_spec
(Resource option) Specifies requirements for the job, such as the amount of RAM and the number
of CPUs. Only PBS-style resource requests are supported. resource_spec is a comma separated
list of key/value pairs. Each pair is of the form resource_name=value. resource_name and value
may be +--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ |
resource_name | value | Description |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | arch
| string | Sets Arch machine | | |
| attribute. Enclose in | | | | double
quotes. |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | file
| size | Disk space requested. |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | host
| string | Host machine on which | | |
| the job must run. |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | mem
| size | Amount of memory | | |
| requested. |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | nodes
| {<node_count> | <hostn | Number and/or properties | | | ame>}
[:ppn=<ppn>] [:gpu | of nodes to be used. For | | | s=<gpu>]
[:<property> [: | examples, please see | | | <property>] ...] [+
...] | http://docs.adaptivecom | | | |
puting.com/torque/4-1-3/ | | | |
Content/topics/2-jobs/re | | | |
questingRes.htm#qsub |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | opsys
| string | Sets OpSys machine | | |
| attribute. Enclose in | | | | double
quotes. |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+ | procs
| integer | Number of CPUs | | |
| requested. |
+--------------------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
A size value is an integer specified in bytes, following the PBS/Torque default. Append Kb, Mb,
Gb, or Tb to specify the value in powers of two quantities greater than bytes.
-m a|e|n
(Notification option) Identify when HTCondor sends notification e-mail. If a, send e-mail when
the job terminates abnormally. If e, send e-mail when the job terminates. If n, never send
e-mail.
-M e-mail_address
(Notification option) Sets the destination address for HTCondor e-mail.
-o filename
(File option) Specifies the condor_submit command output, the file where stdout is written. If
not specified, set to the default name of `` <commandfile>.o<ClusterId>``, where <commandfile>
is the condor_qsub argument, and `` <ClusterId>`` is the job attribute ClusterId assigned for
the job.
-p integer
(Status option) Sets the priority submit command for the job, with 0 being the default. Jobs
with higher numerical priority will run before jobs with lower numerical priority.
-print (Specific option) Send to stdout the contents of the HTCondor submit description file that
condor_qsub generates.
-r y|n (Status option) The default value of y implements the default HTCondor policy of assuming that
jobs that do not complete are placed back in the queue to be run again. When n, job submission
is restricted to only running the job if the job ClassAd attribute NumJobStarts is currently 0.
This identifies the job as not re-runnable, limiting it to start once.
-S shell
(Submission option) Specifies the path and executable name of a shell. Alters the HTCondor
submit description file produced, such that the executable becomes a wrapper script. Within the
submit description file will be executable = <shell> and arguments = <commandfile>.
-t start [-stop:step]
(Submission option) Queues a set of nearly identical jobs. The SGE-style syntax is supported.
start, stop, and step are all integers. start is the starting index of the jobs, stop is the
ending index (inclusive) of the jobs, and step is the step size through the indices. Note that
using more than one processor or node in a job will not work with this option.
-test (Specific option) With the intention of testing a potential job submission, parse files and
commands to generate error output. Produces, but then removes the HTCondor submit description
file. Never submits the job, even if no errors are encountered.
-v variable list
(Environmental option) Used to set the submit command environment for the job. variable list is
as that defined for the submit command. Note that the syntax needed is specialized to deal
with quote marks and white space characters.
-V (Environmental option) Sets getenv = True in the submit description file.
-W attr_name=attr_value[,attr_name=attr_value...]
(File option) PBS/Torque supports a number of attributes. However, condor_qsub only supports
the names stagein and stageout for attr_name. The format of attr_value for stagein and stageout
is local_file@hostname:remote_file[,...] and we strip it to remote_file[,...]. HTCondor's file
transfer mechanism is then used if needed.
-version
(Specific option) Print version information for the condor_qsub program and exit. Note that
condor_qsub has its own version numbers which are separate from those of HTCondor.
EXIT STATUS
condor_qsub will exit with a status value of 0 (zero) upon success, and it will exit with the value 1
(one) upon failure to submit a job.
AUTHOR
HTCondor Team
COPYRIGHT
1990-2024, Center for High Throughput Computing, Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, WI, US. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
Jun 20, 2025 CONDOR_QSUB(1)