[Swift-devel] Re: swift testing of gram5 on teraport

[Stuart Martin]

On Jun 19, 2009, at Jun 19, 11:17 AM, Michael Wilde wrote:

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> On 6/19/09 11:02 AM, Stuart Martin wrote:
>> On Jun 19, 2009, at Jun 19, 10:54 AM, Michael Wilde wrote:
>>> We'll find a way to do this, STu, but it may go a little slower  
>>> than desired due to heavy multi-tasking in the group.
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>>> So you should push forward to get it testable, thats step zero I  
>>> think.
>> I am pushing forward with groups where there is someone to drive  
>> the testing.  For example, Jaime Frey is testing gram5 with condor- 
>> g.  CMS will be doing some testing in early July.  Then there is  
>> the swift testing...
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> Stu,
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> I would suggest not to delay on getting it installed where we can  
> test with swift. My prior comment was based on a poor initial guess  
> of whts involved. But that's your call; when its installed where we  
> can run Swift jobs, we'll test it.

Ok - I'll ask Ti again to install it on teraport.

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> Eg: we are running 2 apps on Firefly at the moment. if you can get  
> it installed there, we can test on it even simpler than we are  
> testing over Condor-G.

Where is Firefly?  Who do I talk to about that?  Or maybe the request  
is best to come from the user (you).  e.g. please install gram5 on  
firefly, that has the potential to improve scalability for my swift  
jobs...

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> Do you have a way to capture gatekeeper stress during such tests?

Joe has used ganglia for these test results:
	http://dev.globus.org/wiki/GRAM5_Scalability_Results#Test_Results

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> - Mike
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>>> In parallel, we should discuss on the list what ifany Swift  
>>> changes are needed to use it. It dont have my head around the  
>>> issue at the moment. Where can we read the specs of how it affects  
>>> the user?
>>>
>>> We have a pretty swamped schedule through July, so I'd expect to  
>>> slot this for late Jul early Aug.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mike
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>>> On 6/19/09 10:21 AM, Stuart Martin wrote:
>>>> Hi Mike,
>>>> Ben was planning on testing GRAM5 on teraport for Swift.  Now  
>>>> that Ben is moving on, I am wondering what the plan is for that.   
>>>> Do you still plan to do that?  Is there someone else that will do  
>>>> the testing?
>>>> Ti was going to install GRAM5 for Ben to try out, but he has been  
>>>> delayed dealing with other issues.  GRAM5 has not yet been  
>>>> installed on teraport.  I was going to ask him again to install  
>>>> it, but I don't know who will now drive this testing.
>>>> -Stu