[Swift-devel] Making Swift run on Eureka

[David Kelly]

I don't know the details of this bug, but I remember seeing this email a few months ago if it helps..

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Rich" <pmrich at gmail.com>
> To: "Michael Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: support at alcf.anl.gov, "Robert Jacob" <jacob at mcs.anl.gov>, "swift-devel" <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>, "Andrew
> Cherry" <acherry at alcf.anl.gov>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:39:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Swift-devel] [alcf-support #60887] Can Cobalt command-line bug on Eureka be fixed?
> Michael,
> 
> I wanted to let you know that a recent patch to Cobalt on Eureka
> should allow you to pass command-line arguments into the program
> supplied to the Cobalt job. Let us know if you encounter any further
> difficulties, and I am sorry that this took so long to deploy.
> 
> Thank you for your patience,
> 
> --
> Paul Rich
> ALCF Operations -- AIG
> richp at alcf.anl.gov
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Wilde" <wilde at mcs.anl.gov>
> To: "Paul M. Rich" <richp at alcf.anl.gov>, "Andrew Cherry"
> <acherry at alcf.anl.gov>
> Cc: "swift-devel" <swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu>, "Robert Jacob"
> <jacob at mcs.anl.gov>, support at alcf.anl.gov
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 7:30:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [alcf-support #60887] Can Cobalt command-line bug on
> Eureka be fixed?
> 
> Paul, Andrew,
> 
> What I think we're going to do on this from the Swift side is
> temporarily try to use Eureka in a mode where we manually start Swift
> workers on the cluster using a batch job.
> 
> We'll wait on testing the Swift Cobolt interface (which is different
> than the above) until we hear from you that the bug is fixed and ready
> for testing.
> 
> So even though it may be many weeks or more away, we'd like to put in
> our vote for fixing this issue (realizing that you have many other
> priorities :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MIke