[Swift-devel] gensites templates

[Michael Wilde]

I think the idea was that the user would specify -config cf on the command line and include the #sites directives in that file along with any swift.property settings.

We should suggest refinements of the latest version and document now, so we can get this into 0.93 and really start pushing it for users (and using it ourselves).

Ketan and I talked a bit about making sure that the template is processed through shell expansion, so that we could include expressions in the substitutions. It may also be good to be able to include conditional selection of template lines based on user parameter values.

Main thing now is to make it easy for the user to know what each template is for; which one to use; and what parameters to each template are optional, mandatory, default, and what they all mean. In the doc page, many examples matching real needs in priority and complexity order are essential.

Ketan, can you open a bug on this if we dont have one yet and paste this in?

- Mike


----- Original Message -----
> Right. Also, I could not find the input properties files through which
> these templates are supposed to be generated. Do they exist elsewhere?
> 
> The document says, the properties could be integrated into
> swift.properties. I am trying to segregate most common properties for
> common clusters into dedicated .properties files.
> 
> So, please let me know if you find these somewhere on your local disk
> or know of their location. In parallel I will fire a find+grep :)
> 
> 
> Ketan
> 
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Michael Wilde wrote:
> 
> > We should change the doc page to show an example or two that are
> > much simpler and more commonly used than Surveyor.
> >
> > - Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hey Ketan,
> >>
> >>
> >> The list of available gensites templates can be found with the
> >> gensites -T command. Currently, the only templates available are:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> intrepid
> >> local
> >> local-pbs-coasters
> >> pads
> >> queenbee
> >> sge-local
> >> ssh
> >> ssh-pbs-coasters
> >> surveyor
> >>
> >>
> >> These templates are stored in etc/sites and are based on the
> >> provider
> >> test templates located in tests/providers. I think the plan is to
> >> add
> >> more in the future, but this was based on the list we created for
> >> the
> >> initial round of provider testing.
> >>
> >>
> >> David
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Ketan Maheshwari <
> >> ketancmaheshwari at gmail.com > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Does a set of predefined gensites templates for common clusters
> >> exists
> >> somewhere?
> >>
> >> I could see an example for surveyor here:
> >> https://sites.google.com/site/swiftparallelscripting/home/managingsites
> >>
> >> Ketan
> >>
> >>
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> > Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> > Argonne National Laboratory
> >

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