[Swift-devel] Re: sites.xml settings for Beagle in Swift trunk?

[Mihael Hategan]

Ok. Thanks.

Mihael

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 14:28 -0500, ketan wrote:
> Mihael,
> 
> For PBS provider, Justin made enhancement through which multiple 
> provider attributes could be specified in sites.xml, separated by 
> semicolon using the "providerAttribute" key as follows:
> 
> <profile namespace="globus" key="providerAttributes">
> pbs.aprun
> pbs.mpp=true
> </profile>
> 
> While the older ppn key parsing was modified to parse just the integer 
> instead of the colon separated string of previous version:
> 
> <profile namespace="globus" key="ppn">24:cray:pack</profile>
> 
> I missed to notice this above change in trunk and retained the above 
> line in my sites.xml. This was causing the sites.xml parsing to fail and 
> hence nothing was written on the ~/.globus/script/PBS*.submit file.
> 
> Still, this empty submit file was getting submitted which made Swift 
> think that jobs are submitted and so it was emitting a "nnn jobs 
> submitted" status.
> 
> Only to find that nothing was submitted.
> 
> The problem disappeared simply by removing the above colon separated line.
> 
> 
> I would suggest, we continue to support both versions for PBS provider 
> until some later version, say 0.95 before phasing into the new setup.
> 
> 
> Ketan
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/6/11 2:16 PM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> > It may be useful to know what the exact problem was.
> >
> > Mihael
> >
> > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:50 -0500, ketan wrote:
> >> On 5/6/11 11:35 AM, Michael Wilde wrote:
> >>> Ketan, Justin,
> >>>
> >>> Did you work out yesterday the right sites.xml settings for Coasters-PBS-Cray-aprun?
> >>>
> >>> I think this page was the start of your documentation for those, Justin:
> >>>     https://sites.google.com/site/swiftdevel/internals/providers/coasters-provider
> >>>
> >>> Ketan, can you move these to the new cookbook, and work out any issues to make sure they are correct?
> >>>
> >>> Did you both determine that the trunk code is working OK, or that it has bugs that still prevent it from running correctly on Beagle?
> >> I tested yesterday with the trunk code on beagle with new coaster-site
> >> attributes and this bug is not in anymore.
> >> However, testing the trunk code on a large run is still not concluded. I
> >> will report as soon as a big run gets underway on beagle.
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> - Mike
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