[Swift-devel] Re: moldyn intermediate files vs gridftp URLs

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:15 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> In the MolDyn app, the swift runtime is 'customised' (cough) so that it 
> doesn't stage certain intermediate files from the single execution site 
> where those files are created and consumed to the submit host.
> 
> If those intermediate files were mapped to remote files on the execution 
> site (eg as gridftp URLs), what would happen?
> 
> Would swift try to stage back those files to their submit-side locations 
> which would actually be on the compute site?

Yes, I think so.

> 
> Would that help this workflow?
> 

It might.