[Swift-devel] simple executable staging

[Ben Clifford]

You can do it now without too much hassle but its not as beautiful as it 
could be. I thought I had added an example to the userguide but turns out 
I haven't.

To do it now, make the analysis script an input data file and launch it 
using /bin/sh (so /bin/sh is what does into the tc.data file, not your 
actual application).

Some (?skenny) does similar stuff with a script Rinvoke (that is mapped in 
tc.data) that launches R on an input script.

But I'd like that to look more elegant.

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Glen Hocky wrote:

> This could be potentially very useful for data analysis esp. if the analysis
> were performed with standard tools (e.g. perl, python, awk and gnuplot). If
> you could make simple changes to your analysis script and then push the data
> and analysis tools out for number crunching that would be great.
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote:
> > I've seen enough simple (conceptually, not in run size) uses of Swift (2)
> > and heard enough from OSG Engage people about it being useful that I think
> > Swift should have an option to stage an executable instead of finding it
> > remotely.
> > 
> > This seems more useful in some fields and less so in others (for example,
> > where people are writing numeric code in C and so have few library
> > dependencies).
> > 
> > It can be done in Swift in a round-about way at the moment, but I think it
> > should be better supported.
> > 
> >   
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