Job step loop for LoadLeveler job scripts?

Question

I'm using LoadLeveler to submit jobs on an IBM/BlueGene architecture. I read the documentation made from IBM and also gave Google a try, but I cannot find how to do the following, which I expect should be there:

One can use the

queue

keyword to tell LoadLeveler that a new job step is described, so I could do something like

first_step
queue
second_step
queue

but what I fail to find is a way that does something like

loop job_id = 1,10
   do_job_with_given_job_id
end

Do I have to write a "normal" shell script that in turn calls a load level script for a bunch of times, or is there some built in loop mechanism? I know that other job managers can do this.

Answer 1

When this comes up, we normally just recommend that one writes a shell script which generates the job submission script or scripts; that's what I do for my own jobs. Do these steps have dependancies on each other?

Also, just out of curiosity, which schedulers/resource managers can queue multiple jobs within a loop in a submission script? Not the PBS-based ones...