Workload Managers

Pirana comes with several pre-configured grid workload managers (also referred to as job schedulers): SGE, Slurm, Torque, and jsub-Torque. Custom managers can be added by importing a file containing the settings or by entering the settings directly.

To add a workload manager
To export workload manager
To import workload manager
To edit a workload manager
To delete a workload manager

To add a workload manager

Select File > Settings, choose Workload Managers from the left list and click .

Use the three settings tabs to continue the set up.

Job submitting settings
Command settings
Polling settings

To export workload manager

Select File > Settings, expand Workload Managers in the left list, and choose the manager.

Click and identify the location and filename, then press Save.

To import workload manager

Select File > Settings, choose Workload Managers from the left list, and click ... (ellipsis).

Select the file containing the saved workload manager and press Open.

To edit a workload manager

Select File > Settings, expand Workload Managers in the left list, and choose the manager to edit.

Use the three tabs of settings to modify the set up.

To delete a workload manager

Only user-defined workload managers can be deleted.

Select File > Settings, expand Workload Managers in the left list, and choose the manager to delete.

Click in the Job Submitting tab.