[Swift-devel] Condor-G test on UJ-OSG site

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 13:07 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> Hi, Mihael
> 
> Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:59 -0500, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi, Ben
> >>
> >>
> >> Ben Clifford wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Fri, 8 May 2009, Zhao Zhang wrote:
> >>>
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >>>> So, for the remote job manger, I could use pbs, condor, fork or SGE which ever
> >>>> is available on the remote site, right?
> >>>>     
> >>>>         
> >>> Yes. You must use whichever is installed on the remote site. For OSG thats 
> >>> what swift-osg-ress-site-catalog tells you.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Yes, for most of the time, it is correct. Here is a case: FLTECH site.
> >> In the site information web site, it says both condor and fork are 
> >> available, 
> >>     
> >
> > Fork should always be available, but it's not something you run cluster
> > jobs with.
> >   
> What does "cluster jobs" mean?

I shouldn't come up with terms.

Fork runs jobs on the head node. PBS/condor/etc run jobs on the worker
nodes.

Fork is not to be used for swift jobs.

> >   
> >> http://vors.grid.iu.edu/cgi-bin/index.cgi?region=0&VO=24&grid=1&dtype=0&res=322#SITELISTING,
> >> and swift-osg-ress-site-catalog chose condor as the default job manager. 
> >> But I couldn't run any job there with condor job manager,
> >>     
> >
> > Why is that?
> >   
> Hmm, it is working now. But when I tried it on Friday, my swift client 
> was just hanging there. Is there any schedule policy difference between 
> those two job manager?

Yes there is.

> 
> zhao
> >   
> >>  while if I use 
> >> fork, jobs were running. Again, I am
> >> attaching the sites.xml file.
> >>
> >> zhao
> >>
> >> [zzhang at tp-grid1 condor-g]$ cat FLTECH.xml
> >> <config>
> >>   <!-- FLTECH -->
> >>   <pool handle="FLTECH" >
> >>     <gridftp  url="gsiftp://uscms1.fltech-grid3.fit.edu/" />
> >>     <execution  provider="condor" />
> >>     <workdirectory >/mnt/nas0/OSG/DATA/osg/tmp/FLTECH</workdirectory>
> >>     <profile namespace="globus" key="jobType">grid</profile>
> >>     <profile namespace="globus" key="gridResource">gt2 
> >> uscms1.fltech-grid3.fit.edu/jobmanager-fork</profile>
> >>   </pool>
> >> </config>
> >>     
> >
> >
> >