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Creating a Job Array
Creating a Job Array
Syntax
A job array is created at job submission time using the -J option of bsub. For
example, the following command creates a job array named myArray made up
of 1000 jobs.
% bsub -J "myArray[1-1000]" myJob
Job is submitted to default queue .
The bsub syntax used to create a job array follows:
% bsub -J "arrayName[indexList, ...]" myJob
Where:
-J "arrayName[indexList, ...]"
Names and creates the job array. The square brackets, [ ], around indexList
must be entered exactly as shown and the job array name specification must
be enclosed in quotes. Commas (,) are used to separate multiple indexList
entries. The maximum length of this specification is 255 characters.
arrayName
User specified string used to identify the job array. Valid values are any
combination of the following characters:
a-z | A-Z | 0-9 | . | - | _
indexList = start[-end[:step]]
Specifies the size and dimension of the job array, where:
◆ start
Used with end to specify the start of a range of indices. Can also be used
to specify an individual index. Valid values are unique positive integers.
For example, [1-5] and [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] specify 5 jobs with indices 1
through 5.
◆ end
Specifies the end of a range of indices. Valid values are unique positive
integers.
◆ step
Specifies the value to increment the indices in a range. Indices begin at
start, increment by the value of step, and do not increment past the
value of end. The default value is 1. Valid values are positive integers. For
example, [1-10:2] specifies a range of 1-10 with step value 2 creating
indices 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9.
After the job array is created (submitted), individual jobs are referenced using
the job array name or job ID and an index value. For example, both of the
following series of job array statements refer to jobs submitted from a job array
named myArray which is made up of 1000 jobs and has a job ID of 123:
myArray[1], myArray[2], myArray[3], ..., myArray[1000]
123[1], 123[2], 123[3], ..., 123[1000]
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