[Swift-devel] Re: sites.xml

[Mihael Hategan]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:59 -0500, lixi at uchicago.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the latest version, I notice that there are different 
> site items in sites.xml:
> 
> For localhost:
> <pool handle="localhost">
>     <gridftp  url="local://localhost" />
>     <execution provider="local" />
>     <workdirectory >/var/tmp</workdirectory>
>     <profile namespace="karajan" 
> key="jobThrottle">0</profile>
> </pool>
> 
> For OSG sites:
> <pool handle="ncsa_32" >
>     <gridftp  url="gsiftp://login-w.ncsa.teragrid.org" />
>     <jobmanager universe="vanilla" url="grid-
> w.ncsa.teragrid.org/jobmanager" major="2" />
>     <workdirectory >/u/ac/tstef</workdirectory>
> </pool>
> 
> There are some difference between them. When configuring OSG 
> sites, which one is preferred? Or both are acceptable.

If you're referring to execution vs. jobamanager, then there isn't much
difference besides that execution allows specifying job managers in a
portable fashion across different providers.

For example the standard pre-WS-GRAM way is appending /jobmanager-<name>
to the URL, while in WS-GRAM it's... different. I forget exactly how.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Xi