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.TH qrun 8B "19 February 2018" Local "PBS Professional"
.SH NAME
.B qrun 
\- run a PBS batch job now

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B qrun 
[-a] [-H <vnode specification>] <job ID> [<job ID> ...]
.br
.B qrun
[-a] [-H - ] <job ID> [<job ID> ...]
.br
.B qrun
--version

.SH DESCRIPTION
Forces a job to run, regardless of scheduling position or resource requirements.

The 
.B qrun 
command can be used on jobs, subjobs, or ranges of subjobs, but
not on job arrays.  When it is used on a range of subjobs, the
non-running subjobs in that range are run.

When preemption is enabled, the scheduler preempts other jobs in order
to run this job.  Running a job via 
.B qrun 
gives the job higher preemption priority than any of the priorities defined
in the 
.I preempt_prio 
scheduler parameter.  

.B Required Privilege
.br
In order to execute 
.B qrun, 
you must have PBS Operator or Manager privilege.

.B Caveats for qrun
.RS 3
The job is run without respect for limits, primetime, or dedicated time.

If you use a
.B -H vnode_specification
option to run a job, but specify insufficient vnodes or resources, the
job may not run correctly.  Avoid using this option unless you are
sure.

If you don't use the 
.I -H 
option, the job must be in the 
.I Queued
state and reside in an execution queue.

If you do use the 
.I -H 
option, the job must be in the 
.I Queued 
or 
.I Suspended 
state and reside in an execution queue.

If you use the 
.I -H
option, all schedulers are bypassed, and partition boundaries are ignored.

The 
.B qrun
command cannot be used on a job that is in the process of provisioning.
.RE

.SH OPTIONS
.IP "-a" 6
The 
.B qrun 
command exits before the job actually starts execution.

.IP "(no -H option)" 6
The job is run immediately regardless of scheduling policy as long as 
the following are true:
.RS 9
The queue in which the job resides is an execution queue.

Either the resources required by the job are available, or preemption
is enabled and the required resources can be made available by
preempting jobs that are running.
.RE

.IP "(with -H option)" 6
Do 
.B NOT
use this option unless you know exactly what you are doing.

With the -H option, all scheduling policies are bypassed and the job
is run directly.  The job is run immediately on the named or
previously assigned vnodes, regardless of current usage on those
vnodes or which scheduler manages the vnodes, 
with the exception of vnode state.  The job is not run and
the qrun request is rejected if any named vnode is down, 
already allocated exclusively, or would need to be allocated
exclusively and another job is already running on the vnode.  The job
is run if the vnode is 
.I offline.

The 
.I -H
option runs jobs that are queued or suspended.

If the 
.B qrun -H 
command is used on a job that requests an AOE, and that AOE is not instantiated
on those vnodes, the vnodes are provisioned with the AOE.

If the job requests an AOE, and that AOE is not available on the 
specified vnodes, the job is held.
.RS 6
.IP "-H <vnode specification without resources>" 3
The 
.I vnode specification without resources
has this format:
.br
.I \ \ \ (<vchunk>)[+(<vchunk>) ...]
.br
where 
.I vchunk 
has the format
.br
.I \ \ \ <vnode name>[+<vnode name> ...]
.br
Example: -H (VnodeA+VnodeB)+(VnodeC)

PBS applies one requested chunk from the job's selection directive in round-robin
fashion to each 
.I vchunk 
in the list.  Each 
.I vchunk 
must be sufficient to run the job's corresponding chunk, otherwise
the job may not execute correctly.
.RE

.RS 6
.IP "-H <vnode specification with resources>" 3
The 
.I vnode specification with resources
has this format:
.br
.I \ \ \ (<vchunk>)[+(<vchunk>) ...]
.br
where 
.I vchunk 
has the format
.IP "" 6
.I <vnode name>:<vnode resources>[+<vnode name>:<vnode resources> ...]
.LP
.RS 3
and where
.I vnode resources
has the format
.RS 3
<resource name>=<value>[:<resource name>=<value> ...]
.RE

.IP "Example:" 3
-H (VnodeA:mem=100kb:ncpus=1)+ (VnodeB:mem=100kb:ncpus=2+ VnodeC:mem=100kb)
.LP

PBS creates a new selection directive from the 
.I vnode specification with resources, 
using it instead of the original specification from the user.
Any single resource specification results in the
job's original selection directive being ignored.  Each 
.I vchunk 
must be sufficient to run the job's corresponding chunk, otherwise
the job may not execute correctly.

If the job being run requests
.I -l place=exclhost,
take extra care to satisfy the 
.I exclhost 
request.  Make sure that if any vnodes are from a multi-vnoded host, 
all vnodes from that host are allocated.  Otherwise those vnodes can 
be allocated to other jobs.
.RE

.IP "-H -" 3
Runs the job on the set of resources to which it is already assigned.
You can run a job on the set of resources already assigned to the juob, without having to list the resources, by using the 
.I -
(dash) argument to the
.I -H 
option.
.RE

.IP "--version" 6
The 
.B qrun
command returns its PBS version information and exits.
This option can only be used alone.

.SH OPERANDS
.IP "Job ID" 6
The 
.B qrun 
command accepts a list of job IDs, of the form
.I \ \ \ <sequence number>[.<server name>][@<server name>]
.br
.I \ \ \ <sequence number>[<index>][.<server name>][@<server name>]
.IP " " 9
.I <sequence number>[<index start>-<index end>][.<server name>][@<server name>]
.IP " " 6
Note that some shells require that you enclose a job array identifier in
double quotes.

.IP "vnode specification" 6
The 
.I vnode specification without resources
has this format:
.IP "" 9
.I (<vchunk>)[+(<vchunk>) ...]
.br
where 
.I vchunk 
has the format
.br
.I <vnode name>[+<vnode name> ...]
.br
Example: -H (VnodeA+VnodeB)+(VnodeC)
.LP
.IP "" 6
The 
.I vnode specification with resources
has this format:
.IP "" 9
.I (<vchunk>)[+(<vchunk>) ...]
.br
where 
.I vchunk 
has the format
.br
.I <vnode name>:<vnode resources>[+<vnode name>:<vnode resources> ...]
.br
and where
.I vnode resources
has the format
.br
.I <resource name>=<value>[:<resource name>=<value> ...]

Example: -H (VnodeA:mem=100kb:ncpus=1) + (VnodeB:mem=100kb:ncpus=2 + VnodeC:mem=100kb)
.IP "" 6
A 
.I vnode name
is the name of the vnode, not the name of the host.

.SH STANDARD ERROR
The
.B qrun
command writes a diagnostic message to standard error for
each error occurrence.

.SH EXIT STATUS
.IP Zero 6
On success

.IP "Greater than zero" 6
If the 
.B qrun 
command fails to process any operand

.SH SEE ALSO
The
.I PBS Professional Administrator's Guide,
.br
qsub(1B), 
qmgr(8B), 
pbs_runjob(3B)