Hi!

We're slowly integrating PDG into our pipeline, and have used it for offloading quite a bit of processing, quite successfully I think!

My question is, after a job finishes, reselecting a sub-job for resubmission in hqueue can't happen, as the pdg connection to the machine that submitted the original job has closed.

Is there a workflow for this? Or how should we approach these kind of scenarios?

As an aside, what is the proper way of submitting pdg, without having to keep the submitting machine's scene open for the duration of the job?

Thanks!

Neill


ps, mixed os (win10,mac,lin) | houdini 17.5.460.

There is a feature called ‘Submit Graph As Job’ on the HQueue scheduler TOP node that allows you to submit a cook and close houdini. This sort of job is also restartable from the HQueue web UI.

Morning!

Thanks Chris! I'll try that right now! I there a reason this isn't on the TOP subnet itself?

Cheers!

Yes, the reason is because you can have multiple scheduler nodes in a TOP subnet, so it's not always clear which scheduler should do the sumbit. For example my ‘default’ scheduler on the TOP subnet might be localscheduler, but I want to submit the graph to HQueue. In that case it will cook the network using localscheduler on the machine it gets assigned to by HQueue.

ah, cool. thanks for the info!