[Swift-devel] MolDyn at Purdue

[Ian Foster]

I note that we have stopped running at NCSA and switched to trying to 
run at Purdue. A good thing to try, certainly.

However, could we not have had a big job in the queue at NCSA all this 
time, also, using Falkon, which would have run by now?

Ian.

Ioan Raicu wrote:
> Great, than we are set, the project is configurable at the Falkon startup!
> Ioan
>
> Ian Foster wrote:
>> we don't want to do that ("carry the project information on a per job 
>> basis, and charge it to a (potentially) different project each job")
>>
>> Ioan Raicu wrote:
>>> So I made the modifications to the code that generates the GRAM RSL 
>>> to take a command line arguement -project ..., which then is simply 
>>> passed to the RSL file as <project> ... </project>.  At the moment, 
>>> this is something that needs to be set in Falkon at startup, and all 
>>> resources provisioned by Falkon will use the same project.   For now 
>>> I think we have a solution that works at the various TG sites, and 
>>> it is not tightly integrated with Swift. 
>>>
>>> The issue is much more complex if you want Swift to carry the 
>>> project information on a per job basis, and charge it to a 
>>> (potentially) different project each job. 
>>>
>>> Ioan
>>>
>>> Ben Clifford wrote:
>>>> not sure whether you're looking to make this code more closely integrated 
>>>> with swift and/or a product rather than a research project, but you might 
>>>> make the below submission use profile information from the site catalog 
>>>> (and transformation catalog?) - it doesn't look like you're doing anything 
>>>> fancy in the submission.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 9 May 2007, Ioan Raicu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>> Hmmm... I don't know.  If you know what modifications we need to make to the
>>>>> GRAM4 RSL to include the specific project, we can simply modify the RSL by
>>>>> changing the create function to add the extra info into the RSL... its a minor
>>>>> change, but we'd have to recompile the DRP stuff again.  If we can't add it to
>>>>> the RSL, then I don't know any other place to put this.  Anyone have any
>>>>> ideas?  I am using the GRAM4 Java API directly in the DRP code.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ioan
>>>>>
>>>>> PS: Here is a sample RSL...
>>>>>
>>>>> iraicu at tg-viz-login1:~/java/Falkon_v0.8/worker> cat
>>>>> RSL.0.0.ia32-compute.1.120.14898358.xml
>>>>> <job>
>>>>>    <executable>/home/iraicu/java/Falkon_v0.8/worker/run.worker.sh</executable>
>>>>>    <directory>/home/iraicu/java/Falkon_v0.8/worker</directory>
>>>>>    <argument>6900000</argument>
>>>>>    <argument>1500000</argument>
>>>>>    <maxWallTime>120</maxWallTime>
>>>>>    <extensions>
>>>>>         <resourceAllocationGroup>
>>>>>            <hostType>ia32-compute</hostType>
>>>>>            <hostCount>1</hostCount>
>>>>>            <cpuCount>1</cpuCount>
>>>>>            <processCount>1</processCount>
>>>>>         </resourceAllocationGroup>
>>>>>     </extensions>
>>>>> </job>
>>>>>
>>>>> My guess is that we could add something like
>>>>> <project> ... </project>
>>>>> but I am not sure...
>>>>>
>>>>> If no one knows how to do this off the top of their heads, I'll look it up!
>>>>>
>>>>> Veronika Nefedova wrote:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Hi, Ioan:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I add my project info into Falcon? (I can't submit anything to PBS
>>>>>> queue unless I specify the project)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nika
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On May 9, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Ben Clifford wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>> Do this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> edit your site catalog to add an entry <profile namespace="globus"
>>>>>>> key="project">TG-STA040020N</profile> for the purdue site, add an entry
>>>>>>> <profile namespace="globus"
>>>>>>> key="project">TG-WHATEVERYOURGRANTNUMBERIS</profile>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>       
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>
>>> -- 
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>>
>>    Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute
>> Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago
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> Ioan Raicu
> Ph.D. Student
> ============================================
> Distributed Systems Laboratory
> Computer Science Department
> University of Chicago
> 1100 E. 58th Street, Ryerson Hall
> Chicago, IL 60637
> ============================================
> Email: iraicu at cs.uchicago.edu
> Web:   http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/~iraicu
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-- 

   Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute
Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago
Argonne: MCS/221, 9700 S. Cass Ave, Argonne, IL 60439
Chicago: Rm 405, 5640 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: +1 630 252 4619.  Web: www.ci.uchicago.edu.
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