[Swift-devel] Re: Swift on Eureka

[Michael Wilde]

Thanks, Justin.  cc'ing back to the list, Rob, and Sheri.

Sheri, maybe you can run on PADS or Fusion till this is fixed?

- Mike

----- Original Message -----
> Hello
> Right, Swift does not currently run on Eureka due to the following
> bug in Cobalt:
> 
> http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/cobalt/ticket/462
> 
> I got about half of a work-around for this done...
> 
> Justin
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rob and Sheri,
> >
> > I don't know the status of Swift on Eureka, but Im eager to see it
> > running there, so we'll make sure it works.
> >
> > A long while back I tried Swift there, and at the time we had a
> > minor
> > bug in the Cobalt provider. Justin may have fixed that recently on
> > the
> > BG/P's. So Im hoping it either works or has only some
> > readily-fixable
> > issues in the way.
> >
> > We'll try it and get back to you.
> >
> > In the mean time, Sheri, you might want to try a simple hello-world
> > test
> > on Eureka, and see if you can progress to replicating what John
> > Dennis
> > had done so far.
> >
> > Its best to send any errors you get to the swift-user list (which
> > you
> > should join) so that everyone on the Swift team is aware f any
> > issues
> > you encounter and can offer help.
> >
> > You should meet with Justin at Argonne (3rd floor, 240) who can
> > serve as
> > your Swift mentor.
> >
> > Sarah, David - lets add Eureka to the test matrix for release 0.92.
> > Cobalt is very very close to PBS's interface, but there is a
> > separate
> > Swift execution provider that handles the differences.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hi Mike,
> >>
> >> Sheri is going to take over some of the development work John
> >> Dennis
> >> was
> >> doing on using swift with the AMWG diag package.
> >>
> >> Our platform is Eureka. Is there a development version of Swift
> >> installed there?
> >>
> >> Rob
> >
> >
> 
> --
> Justin M Wozniak

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Michael Wilde
Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory