[Swift-devel] Kickstart under Falkon

Michael Wilde wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Sep 7 16:39:00 CDT 2007


Nice.  I asked because I didnt see it there - turns out I had the same 
rev of the users guide in a browser window for the past week or so. Its 
great to see progress being made and especially the docs steadily improving!


Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> I added a link in here a couple days ago:
> 
> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/guides/userguide.php#kickstart
> 
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
>> Cool - I'll try it.
>>
>> Does anyone have a set of compiled kickstart binaries (I'll start on the UC
>> teragrid so I'll need IA64 and i686).
>>
>> Any issues of which VDS release I pull these from?
>>
>> Any sugestions on how to package this for users?
>>
>> Ben Clifford wrote:
>>> in theory, kickstart should work through any of the execution providers, be
>>> it local, gram, falkon, whatever. if it doesn't, paste what's happening
>>> here.
>>>
>>> you shouldn't need to do anything falkon specific. turning on kickstart
>>> changes the command that the swift runtime passes to the execution system
>>> (i.e. fork, gram, falkon) which should run it in the same way it runs
>>> anything else.
>>>
>>> On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Michael Wilde wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ioan, can you remind me - is kickstart supported under Falkon?
>>>>
>>>> If so - just turn on the properties and it should work?
>>>>
>>>> If not - any ideas on whats needed?
>>>>
>>>> - Mike
>>>> ]
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