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From: Christoph Groth <christoph@grothesque.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: babel and long-running computations
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 23:49:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n1pouqd.fsf@grothesque.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJ51ETqwnOLzFbT9dqRUgjqZ_dXEdpunmWT6BS-LLcE=q_fK1Q@mail.gmail.com

Thank you, John, for your detailed reply.

> we routinely do this, in the following way. We run jobs that may take
> up to a week to finish, and they are usually run on a cluster. Our
> setup relies on the following behavior for a script.
>
> 1. you can run the script anytime you want, and it can tell the state
> of the calculation by some means. If the script has never been run
> before, it submits the job to a queue and exits. If the job is still
> in the queue, it exits, and if the job is done, it gives you the
> result.

Returning immediately with whatever state the long-running computation
is in currently seems indeed to be a good solution.  I think I will
setup something similar.  Would you share your experience on the
following issues?

- How do you interface such jobs from orgmode?  With org-babel, do
  you execute Python code, or do you run shell commands?

- Do you run your Emacs on the master node of the cluster?  Or does your
  setup involve running emacs on the machine you are working on and
  talking to the cluster over the network?

Cheers,
Christoph

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-19 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17  8:45 babel and long-running computations Christoph Groth
2014-04-17  9:47 ` Julian Gehring
2014-04-17 10:52   ` Christoph Groth
2014-04-17 12:06     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-04-17 12:45       ` Christoph Groth
2014-04-17 14:58         ` Waldemar Quevedo
2014-04-17 15:29         ` Eric Schulte
2014-04-17 16:29           ` Christoph Groth
2014-04-17 16:44             ` Nick Dokos
2014-04-17 15:33     ` Eric S Fraga
2014-04-20 13:29     ` John Kitchin
2014-04-18 13:20 ` John Kitchin
2014-04-19 21:49   ` Christoph Groth [this message]
2014-04-20 13:21     ` John Kitchin

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