[Swift-devel] Update

[Jonathan Monette]

On Apr 20, 2012, at 10:09, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jonathan Monette" <jonmon at mcs.anl.gov>
>> To: "Michael Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
>> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:41:20 AM
>> Subject: Update
>> Mike,
>> I have an update from work I did over the weekend:
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>> 1) I have implemented the USER_HOME fix in my copy of trunk and
>> tested. I will need this for using Beagle. Should I commit this fix to
>> trunk and 0.93 so we can update the Beagle module?
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> Yes, please update trunk. I dont know how updates to 0.93 are being handled. How do we make these available to users? How many such changes do we have already?

I think David already made the changes to 0.93 and trunk. I have not tested them yet and not sure if he updated the release on Beagle. 
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>> 2) I added a line to the swift bash script to echo a warning message
>> if SWIFT_HOME is set manually and what it is set too. I know this
>> problem has bit you in the butt before and it seemed to have bit
>> Gustav over the weekend. Is this a solution that you feel would solve
>> the SWIFT_HOME set wrong problem?
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> Sounds reasonable to say "SWIFT_HOME set to NNN".  If we agree that this is only used in exceptional cases, can say "WARNING: SWIFT_HOME overidden to NNN. This may affect correct behavior." or something like that.

Ok. I can change that message. Any other suggestions on what it should say?
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> We should also remove the currently annoying message about sites file overridden. That is not helping anything and just adding noise.

I think that is coming from inside Swift and not the bash script itself. 
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> Please discuss (1) and (2) on Swift devel and at today's meeting.

Sure. And what time is the meeting? At 1?
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>> 3) I am finishing up small scale test files that uses the compute
>> nodes on Raven and Hera to send to Dave. Should be done within the
>> hour.
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> I see Dave's report on these. Lets discuss the bencmark.
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>> 4) I have an initial script that averages a group of data lines in the
>> XY column data I have from a full scale SciColSim run(this was
>> Justin's suggestion). I am going to apply this to my data and replot
>> and send the plot. I will then commit this util script to trunk for
>> the plotting tools.
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> Still waiting to see this, I think?
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>> I will send an update at the end of the day of what was accomplished
>> and what issues are blocking me.
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> ?
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> Q: Can we use the benchmark to get a full scicol sim run done?

Depending on how long Dave can get the machine dedicated for him, yes I believe so. If he can only get an hour I think it would be highly unlikely. But if he can get several hours I think yes. I am going to start running tests for the higher TIs on Raven to get a feel for the time requirements. 
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> Also: whats the state of testing reproducibility for SciCol with the BOOST RNG?
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> I discussed this with Justin; they want reproducibility for testing.  Can we generate a vector of RN's up front wherever reproducibility depends on task ordering? (I can discuss what this means...)

I have some changes. Just need testing. 
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> Thanks,
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> - Mike
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> -- 
> Michael Wilde
> Computation Institute, University of Chicago
> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> Argonne National Laboratory
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