[GRASS-dev] Problem with R on cluster (HPC)

[Rainer M Krug]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> Rainer,
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I am trying to run a simulation on an HPC (high performance cluster).
>> To simulate, I have to start GRASS on each node and execute a script.
>> I wrote the script into .grass.bashrc in my home directory, which is
>> available on all nodes.
>>
>> The .grass.bashrc is as follow:
>
> AFAIK this is just the wrong place.

Right - I realized this morning the environmental variable
GRASS_BATCH_JOB: it is doing exactly what I need.
It is working now.

>
> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/manuals/html64_user/variables.html
> "To get personal BASH shell definitions (aliases, color listing
> option, ...) into GRASS, store them in:
>  $HOME/.grass.bashrc"
>
> Did you take a look at
> http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Parallel_GRASS_jobs
> ? Maybe that helps how to set it up.

Thanks - that one pointed out GRASS_BATCH_JOB as well.

Thanks,

Rainer


>
> Markus
>



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