Condor Submit Descriptions

Use the condor_submit command to queue a Condor job for execution. The primary argument to condor_submit is the name of a Condor submit description file. The file contains commands and keywords that direct job queuing, setup, execution and wrapup.

The syntax and keywords used in submit files are described in some detail in a section of the Condor Manual. Here are a few  examples that demonstrate some commonly used options.

  ####################
  #
  # Execute a compiled program with no input data or arguments
  #
  ####################

  # name of the executable program
  Executable     = a.out

  # a.out was not compiled with condor_compile, so we run
  # in the vanilla universe
  Universe       = vanilla
  
  # $(cluster) is replaced at runtime by the job number

  # direct stdout and stderr to files
  Output         = out.$(cluster)
  Error          = err.$(cluster)
  
  # direct condor messages to a file
  Log            = log.$(cluster)

  # request condor to copy data files to the execution node
  should_transfer_files = YES
  when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT

  # run the program with no arguments
  Queue

  ####################
  #
  # Execute a program compiled with condor_compile, using input data
  #
  ####################
  # name of the executable program
  Executable     = a.out

  # a.out was compiled with condor_compile, so we can run in the standard
  # universe (where we have support for checkpointing)
  Universe       = standard
  
  # $(cluster) is replaced at runtime by the job number

  # define file for stdin
  Input          = input.dat

  # direct stdout and stderr to files
  Output         = out.$(cluster)
  Error          = err.$(cluster)
  
  # direct condor messages to a file
  Log            = log.$(cluster)

  # run the program
  Arguments      = arg1 arg2
  Queue

  ####################
  #
  # Condor submit description file for scimark2 benchmark
  # http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/index.html
  #
  ####################

  Universe        = java

  Error           = logs/err.$(cluster)
  Output          = logs/out.$(cluster)
  Log             = logs/log.$(cluster)

  jar_files = scimark2lib.jar
  should_transfer_files = YES
  when_to_transfer_output = ON_EXIT

  Executable     = scimark2lib.jar
  Arguments      = jnt.scimark2.commandline

  Queue