excluding nodes from qsub command under sge

Question

I have more than 200 jobs I need to submit to and sge cluster. I\'ll be submitting them into two ques. One of the ques have a machine that I don\'t want to submit jobs to. How c

Answer 1

Assuming you don't want to run it on is called n4 then adding the following to your script should work.

#$ -l h=!n4

If you add the -l option to the qsub command line rather than embedding it in the submitted script most shells would require the exclamation mark to be quoted.