[Swift-devel] testing

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Mar 18 12:11:53 CDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 12:05 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> On 3/18/09 10:11 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 07:27 -0500, Michael Wilde wrote:
> > 
> >>>  iii) running anything through gram2 is bad - any base job submissions 
> >>>   need to be through condor-g using its hybrid gram2+gridmanager system.
> >> I agree, and was assuming that on OSG we would only use the new Condor 
> >> provider, and run jobs in this manner.
> > 
> > There seems to be some confusion here.
> > 
> > Ben, the point is to run with one of the scheduler providers, not gram2.
> > 
> > Mike, the condor provider is not a condor-through-gram provider. It only
> > submits to the local condor queue.
> 
> I was thinking/hoping that the condor provider would have a setting that 
> submitted swift apps as condor-g jobs to N grid sites, *via* the local 
> condor queue.
> 
> Isn't that how condor-g works? I send my local condor (via condor_sumit) 
> a .sub file that says e.g.:
> 
>    universe=grid
>    grid_resource=gt2 osg-edu.cs.wisc.edu/jobmanager-condor
> 
> If I cant do that yet through the condor provider, was it your intent 
> that users eventually be able to do that, or was that not what you were 
> implementing?

That was not what I was implementing.

What I was aiming for was a local condor provider, similar to the PBS
provider, that would address the scalability issues with gram2 for sites
using condor as a queuing system.




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