[Swift-devel] Fwd: Re: chained genU workflow

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:06 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> whats a project profile entry?

That thing that gets translated into a 'project' RSL attribute and
eventually to the PBS equivalent.
In swift I suppose it's called a profile entry, since it's specified
with the <profile> element, and has both a key and a value which kinda
makes it an 'entry'. And the key in this case is "project".

> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > This is the list of things I got from them OOB:
> > - MPI jobs with the PBS provider. They need to be able to run with more
> > than one version of MPI.
> > - Easier configuration of tc.data/sites.xml. Basically they need the
> > ability to use a global sites.xml while changing only things like the
> > project profile entry.
> > - The cleanup didn't work as it was. It would submit a job on the
> > default execution provider (whatever that was) which needed a project
> > profile entry, but the swift library didn't provide one. This was solved
> > by hacking the vdl lib and adding /bin/rm in tc.data.
> > - They would like the cleanup to be done without pbs in the future
> > (possibly fork or directly with the fileop provider). There's some
> > thinking that needs to go here.
> > 
> > That's it I think.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 16:31 -0500, Veronika V. Nefedova wrote:
> > > Hi, everybody:
> > > 
> > > I got this email from Xian-He (after i sent him the lqcd workflow) and I do 
> > > not think I understand what exactly is he talking about.
> > > Mihael and/or Yong -- you've worked with this group before I joined - maybe 
> > > you know what exactly are their problems ? Please give me any background 
> > > information so I could help them to proceed.
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Nika
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 16:24:45 -0500
> > > >From: Xian-He Sun <sun at iit.edu>
> > > >Subject: Re: chained genU workflow
> > > >To: "Veronika  V. Nefedova" <nefedova at mcs.anl.gov>
> > > >Cc: Don Holmgren <djholm at fnal.gov>, simone at fnal.gov,
> > > >    Nirmal Seenu <nirmal at fnal.gov>, Mike Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>,
> > > >    Ian Foster <foster at mcs.anl.gov>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Thank you, Nika. It is a good achievement. Currently, we are still
> > > >facing
> > > >two technical issues,
> > > >
> > > >1. The lqcd computing environment is not an true Grid environment. We
> > > >still
> > > >need to modify your code to make it work. We have had some success of
> > > >the hello
> > > >example and will work on this one too.
> > > >
> > > >2. We have made Swift talking to PBS directly but some efficiency
> > > >issues remain
> > > >at this time. Some modification at the Swift side is needed. Nirmal is
> > > >working with Mihael Hategan on this regard.
> > > >
> > > >Thank you,
> > > >
> > > >Xian-He
> > > 
> > > 
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