[Swift-devel] Attributes vs Options in coaster-c-client

[Michael Wilde]

In the coaster-c-client code, run-coaster-job -help has these two items:

        --attr|-a <name>=<value>
                      A job attribute (such as 'maxwalltime').
                      Can be used more than once.

        --option|-o <name>=<value>
                      An option to pass to the coaster service
                      (such as 'slots=10'). Can be used more than
                      once.
The two mentioned in the "help" message are specified in the same manner in sites.xml:

    <profile namespace="globus" key="maxWalltime">00:05:00</profile>
    <profile namespace="globus" key="slots">4</profile>

How are attrs and options different and how do we determine which sites attribute is set in which way?

- Mike

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