[Swift-devel] Re: [Swift-user] using swift on a cluster

Michael Wilde wilde at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Oct 21 15:12:00 CDT 2009


cool.

- Mike

On 10/21/09 2:54 PM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> Yay!
> 
> That was it!
> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Wilde [mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 12:37 PM
> To: Hodgess, Erin
> Cc: Swift User Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Swift-user] using swift on a cluster
> 
> Erin,
> 
> The first line of your sites.xml file seems to be left there in error:
> 
>   > [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat sites.xml
>   > <execution provider="condor" url="none" />
> 
> Can you remove that and try again? Im not sure how that got parsed.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> On 10/21/09 12:10 PM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
>> Hi again!
>>
>> Here are the sites.xml and tc.data files.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erin
>>
>>
>> [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat sites.xml
>> <execution provider="condor" url="none" />
>>
>> <config>
>>
>>    <pool handle="localhost">
>>      <gridftp url="local://localhost" />
>>      <execution provider="local" url="none" />
>>      <workdirectory>/home/hodgess/swiftwork</workdirectory>
>>      <profile namespace="karajan" key="jobThrottle">.03</profile>
>>      <profile namespace="karajan" key="initialScore">10000</profile>
>>    </pool>
>>
>>    <pool handle="condor">
>>      <execution provider="condor" url="none"/>
>>      <gridftp url="local://localhost"/>
>>      <workdirectory>/home/hodgess/swiftwork</workdirectory>
>>      <profile namespace="karajan" key="jobThrottle">.19</profile>
>>      <profile namespace="karajan" key="initialScore">10000</profile>
>>    </pool>
>>
>> </config>
>> [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat tc.data
>> localhost       convert /usr/bin/convert        INSTALLED       
>> INTEL32::LINUX null
>> localhost       RInvoke /home/hodgess/R-2.9.2/bin/RInvoke.sh    
>> INSTALLED      INTEL32::LINUX   null
>> condor  RInvoke /home/hodgess/R-2.9.2/bin/RInvoke.sh    INSTALLED
> 
>> INTEL32::LINUX  null
>> [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat firstR.R
>> cat: firstR.R: No such file or directory
>> [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat firstR.swift
>> type file{}
>> app (file output) firstone (file scriptFile) {
>>     RInvoke  @filename(scriptFile) @filename(output);
>>     }
>>
>>
>>         file scriptFile <"a1.in" >;
>>         file output <"a1.out" >;
>>             output=firstone(scriptFile);
>> [hodgess at grid bin]$
>>
>>
>> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
>> Associate Professor
>> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>> University of Houston - Downtown
>> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Wilde [mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov]
>> Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 9:22 AM
>> To: Hodgess, Erin
>> Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
>> Subject: Re: [Swift-user] using swift on a cluster
>>
>> Erin, we need to look into this further.
>>
>> Please make sure that you are running either Swift 0.9 or the latest
>> source from svn. And tell us what revision you are running.
>>
>> Also please post your tc.data and sites.xml (and log file is its small
>> enought); see if there are any messages in the .log file that would
>> clarify the error.
>>
>> Make sure that your app is cataloged in tc.data as being on pool
>> "condor". But I think if it were not, you'd see a different error.
>>
>> It almost looks to me like Swift is looking for the GRAM service
> contact
>> string, as if it thinks you are asking for Condor-G instead of local
>> Condor, eg:
>>
>>   <profile namespace="globus" key="jobType">grid</profile>
>>   <profile namespace="globus"
>>    key="gridResource">gt2
> belhaven-1.renci.org/jobmanager-fork</profile>
>> Just as a test, try changing provider="condor" to "pbs" in sites.xml.
> If
>> the error changes to something like "PBS not installed" or "qsub not
>> found" then I would suspect this is the case.
>>
>> Its possible you can add just the jobType element with the value set
> to
>> vanilla instead of grid, but I am purely *guessing*; we'll look deeper
>> as soon as you send the info above and we have time.
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>>
>> On 10/21/09 9:03 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
>>  > Here is the output:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > [hodgess at grid bin]$ swift -tc.file tc.data -sites.file sites.xml
>>  > firstR.swift
>>  > Swift 0.9 swift-r2860 cog-r2388
>>  >
>>  > RunID: 20091021-0901-aku7y862
>>  > Progress:
>>  > Execution failed:
>>  >         No service contacts available
>>  > [hodgess at grid bin]$
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
>>  > Associate Professor
>>  > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>>  > University of Houston - Downtown
>>  > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>>  >
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > -----Original Message-----
>>  > From: Michael Wilde [mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov]
>>  > Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 7:02 AM
>>  > To: Hodgess, Erin
>>  > Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
>>  > Subject: Re: [Swift-user] using swift on a cluster
>>  >
>>  > For running Swift locally on a Condor cluster, use a sites.xml
> based on
>>  > this example:
>>  >
>>  > <execution provider="condor" url="none" />
>>  >
>>  > <config>
>>  >
>>  >    <pool handle="localhost">
>>  >      <gridftp url="local://localhost" />
>>  >      <execution provider="local" url="none" />
>>  >      <workdirectory>/home/erin/swiftwork</workdirectory>
>>  >      <profile namespace="karajan" key="jobThrottle">.03</profile>
>>  >      <profile namespace="karajan"
> key="initialScore">10000</profile>
>>  >    </pool>
>>  >
>>  >    <pool handle="condor">
>>  >      <execution provider="condor" url="none"/>
>>  >      <gridftp url="local://localhost"/>
>>  >      <workdirectory>/home/erin/swiftwork</workdirectory>
>>  >      <profile namespace="karajan" key="jobThrottle">.19</profile>
>>  >      <profile namespace="karajan"
> key="initialScore">10000</profile>
>>  >    </pool>
>>  >
>>  > </config>
>>  >
>>  > The jobThrottle values above will enable Swift to run up to 4 jobs
> at a
>>  > time on localhost and 20 jobs at a time on the Condor cluster.
>>  >
>>  > Use tc.data to catalog applications on pool or the other.
>>  >
>>  > Set jobThrottle as desired to control execution parallelism.
>>  >
>>  > #jobs run in parallel is (jobThrottle * 100)+1
>>  >
>>  > initialScore=10000 overrides Swift's "start slow" approach to
> sensing
>>  > the site's responsiveness.
>>  >
>>  > - Mike
>>  >
>>  > On 10/21/09 3:17 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
>>  >  > Aha!
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I needed the universe=vanilla line.
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
>>  >  > Associate Professor
>>  >  > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>>  >  > University of Houston - Downtown
>>  >  > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > -----Original Message-----
>>  >  > From: swift-user-bounces at ci.uchicago.edu on behalf of Hodgess,
> Erin
>>  >  > Sent: Wed 10/21/2009 3:07 AM
>>  >  > To: Michael Wilde
>>  >  > Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
>>  >  > Subject: RE: [Swift-user] using swift on a cluster
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Hello!
>>  >  >
>>  >  > We are indeed using condor.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I wanted to try a small test run, but am running into trouble:
>>  >  >
>>  >  > [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat myjob.submit
>>  >  > executable=/usr/bin/id
>>  >  > output=results.output
>>  >  > error=results.error
>>  >  > log=results.log
>>  >  > queue
>>  >  > [hodgess at grid bin]$ condor_submit myjob.submit
>>  >  > Submitting job(s).
>>  >  > Logging submit event(s).
>>  >  > 1 job(s) submitted to cluster 15.
>>  >  > [hodgess at grid bin]$ ls results*
>>  >  > results.error  results.log  results.output
>>  >  > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/hodgess
>>  >  > [hodgess at grid bin]$ cat results.log
>>  >  > 000 (015.000.000) 10/21 03:06:03 Job submitted from host:
>>  >  > <192.168.1.11:46274>
>>  >  > ...
>>  >  > 001 (015.000.000) 10/21 03:06:05 Job executing on host:
>>  > <10.1.255.244:44508>
>>  >  > ...
>>  >  > 002 (015.000.000) 10/21 03:06:05 (1) Job not properly linked for
> 
>> Condor.
>>  >  > ...
>>  >  > 009 (015.000.000) 10/21 03:06:05 Job was aborted by the user.
>>  >  > ...
>>  >  > [hodgess at grid bin]$
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I'm not sure why the job is not linked.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Thanks,
>>  >  > Erin
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
>>  >  > Associate Professor
>>  >  > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>>  >  > University of Houston - Downtown
>>  >  > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > -----Original Message-----
>>  >  > From: Michael Wilde [mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov]
>>  >  > Sent: Tue 10/20/2009 10:49 PM
>>  >  > To: Hodgess, Erin
>>  >  > Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
>>  >  > Subject: Re: [Swift-user] using swift on a cluster
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Hi Erin,
>>  >  >
>>  >  > I'm assuming you meant "use Swift to run jobs on the compute
> nodes of
>>  >  > the cluster"?
>>  >  >
>>  >  > If so, you first need to find out what scheduler (also called
> "batch
>>  >  > system" or "local resource manager") the cluster is running.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Thats typical one of these: PBS, Condor, or SGE.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Either ask your system administrator, or see if the "man"
> command or
>>  >  > similar probes give you a clue:
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Condor: condor_q -version
>>  >  >
>>  >  > condor_q -version
>>  >  > $CondorVersion: 7.2.4 Jun 16 2009 BuildID: 159529 $
>>  >  > $CondorPlatform: I386-LINUX_RHEL5 $
>>  >  >
>>  >  > PBS: man qstat:
>>  >  >
>>  >  >    qstat(1B)  PBS
>>  >  >
>>  >  > SGE: man qstat:
>>  >  >
>>  >  >    QSTAT(1)   Sun Grid Engine User Commands
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > If its PBS or Condor, then the Swift user guide gives the
> sites.xml
>>  >  > entries to use.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > Tell us what you find, then try following the instructions in
> the user
>>  >  > guide, and follow up with questions as needed.
>>  >  >
>>  >  > - Mike
>>  >  >
>>  >  >
>>  >  > On 10/20/09 9:41 PM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
>>  >  >  > Hi Swift Users:
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > I'm on a cluster and would like to use swift on the different
> 
>> sites on
>>  >  >  > the cluster.
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > How would I do that, please?
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > Thanks,
>>  >  >  > Erin
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  > Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
>>  >  >  > Associate Professor
>>  >  >  > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
>>  >  >  > University of Houston - Downtown
>>  >  >  > mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  >
>>  >  >  >
>>  >
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