[Swift-devel] Coasters and std's on ranger

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 14:46 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> So are any of the following reasonable ways to proceed?
> 
> 1) Develop an SGE provider (hopefully heavily based on the PBS provider) 
> and run on Ranger locally.
> 
> 2) Debug getting Coasters, GRAM and SGE to coexist nicely (ie the 
> debugging route in progress now)

Yeah. I mentioned those two yesterday.

> 
> 3) Start the coaster service manually in one block allocation and have 
> it rendezvous with Swift

Possible. You could also force the current one to allocate a single
block or even ignore the stageout error because it occurs after a block
is done.

> 
> For (2) can we create a GRAM test job outside of Swift that we can 
> debug, to try to find a set of GRAM options that work?

You're welcome to try. I haven't been able to do it so far.