Re: Running PDP++ on remote nodes

["Randall C. O'Reilly" <oreilly@psych.colorado.edu>]

You need to use a startup script to run sims in "batch" mode 
(non-interactively).  The manual describes this: basically you just do

bp++ -nogui -f startup.css project.proj.gz <epc> <bat>

you can grab & edit the startup script from:
/usr/local/pdp++/css/include/startup.css

- Randy

On Monday 05 July 2004 12:49 pm, 02armsts@utsc.utoronto.ca wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The simulation I am working on has now become quite large, and I am having
> some difficulties getting it to run on our HPC grid.  It runs fine on the
> master node, but when I use qmon to submit a job to other nodes, the
> program crashes.
>
> I use the command:
>
> bp++ -nogui
>
> To start bp++, which works fine on the main node.  However, when I submit
> the job, I receive an error message:
>
> readline: warning: rl_prep_terminal: cannot get terminal settings.
>
> This error occurs when "bp++>" is printed to the output file.  I'm
> therefore inclined to think that the program crashes because the bp++
> shell is running remotely on a node, and not directly from a terminal on
> the main node.
>
> Is there a way to stop bp++ from creating its own shell?  Or to alter the
> job script I submit to qmon so that I don't encounter this error when
> running bp++ on other nodes?  Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Blair Armstrong
> 02armsts@utsc.utoronto.ca
> University of Toronto at Scarborough