There are several way to control which hosts the supervisor will select when deciding where to start job instances on the farm.
Hosts: Send only to an explicit set of workers
Host Groups: Send only to an explicit pre-defined group of workers
Host Order: Select hosts in a certain preferential order
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Qube allows users to specify a list of hosts, for the job to run on. This is a comma-delimited list of hostnames.
Example
% qbsub --hosts "qb001,qb002" command
Omit Hosts
Qube allows users to specify a list of hosts on which the job is restricted from running. This is a comma-delimited list of hostnames. This blacklists the hosts from running on these hosts.
Example
% qbsub --omithosts "qb001,qb002" command
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Qube allows the administrator to organize the farm into clusters or host groups. These groups have no hierarchy, and hosts are allowed membership in multiple groups. In order to restrict a job to a specific set of hosts, the user may specify in the 'group' field of the job, which groups they want the job restricted to.
Example
% qbsub --groups "vfx,character" Render my/file.ma
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This is the opposite of the Host Groups option, where the job will restrict itself from running upon any hosts which are contained by the specified groups.
Example
% qbsub --omitgroups "vfx,character" command
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By default Qube chooses any host in the list of hosts which qualify. If given a choice, a job is allowed to prefer a particular host based upon its attributes. This is established using the Qube resources and priorities defined earlier in the Requirements section of this document.
Syntax:
signhost.property
signhost.resource.[total|used|avail]
The sign in the expression is used to determine if the job would prefer the smallest or the largest value possible.
The possible values for sign are "+" or "-", and if not specified, sign defaults to "+". The "+" is used to specify using the highest value first, and the "-" is to use the lowest value. These can be combined and will be used in order specified.
Example
Choose the fastest host:
% qbsub --hostorder "host.processor_speed" Render myscene.ma
Choose the host with the least processors:
% qbsub --hostorder "-host.processors.total" Render myscene.ma
Choose the fastest host with the least processors:
% qbsub --hostorder "host.processor_speed,-host.processors.total" Render myscene.ma