Oracle Grid Engine - Additional Information

To set up the proper environment for using the Grid Engine you must log onto a server and type:

source $DECS/sge

To submit a job, the command is:

qsub filename

'Filename' is the executable file, or a shell script of commands. This command will return a job number.

You can check on the status of all jobs with the command:

qstat -f

If you want to submit a job to a specific queue, use the -q queue name command:

qsub -q linux filename

There is a queue for Sparc.

qsub -q sparc filename

If the queue name is not specified, the default is all.q.

When your job is complete, two files are created usually named filename.ejobnumber and filename.ojobnumber. The .ejobnumber contains error messages, and the .ojobnumber is standard output.