[Swift-devel] Knowledge lab app on Midway using new swift-config

Ketan Maheshwari ketan at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Dec 13 20:47:29 CST 2013


Cool. While we are at it, it might be of value to replace the
use.provider.staging=true with a simpler term. May be explicit.staging or
swift.staging ..


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Yadu Nand <yadudoc1729 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried the new swift-config on Swift-0.95 RC1 on Midway today for a text
> processing app from the Knowledge lab.
>
> Here are some of the things I noted.
> 1. Config is super easy! This is all I had to do :
> site=westmere
> site.westmere.slurm.exclusive=false
> use.provider.staging=true
> # App definition
> app.westmere.python=/usr/bin/python
>
> 2. Some settings were off when using my Swift-0.95 build. I had to module
> load swift and swift-conf, to get echo to be recognized as an app. Python
> still would throw the error "application "python" is not available for any
> site/pool in your tc.data catalog". This error should be corrected to point
> at swift.properties instead.
>
> 3. The .rlog file shows up the user directory. Can we have this to go to
> the run* dir.
> Occasionally .d folders also show up.
>
> 4. Why does a swift.log file show up in the user dir? It contains no
> useful info.
>
> Thanks,
> Yadu
>
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