[Swift-user] New Java exception when moving from rc3

Mihael Hategan hategan at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Mar 2 18:31:59 CST 2007


Chad,

Can you post the log file?

Mihael

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:26 -0600, Chad Glendenin wrote:
> I'm still trying to run a workflow that worked with VDL rc3. With  
> Swift snapshot 070301, the command-line argument works again, but now  
> I get a Java exception:
> 
> $ swift minmax.kml -list=filelist.txt
> Swift V 0.0405
> RunID: flkjse5yhp1c0
> Execution failed:
>          java.lang.NumberFormatException: null
> 
> Here's the code I'm trying to run.
> 
> //////
> type file_t {};
> type filelist_t {
>      file_t file;
> }
> 
> (file_t output, file_t error) minmax (file_t input) {
>      app {
>          wrapper @input stdout=@output stderr=@error;
>      }
> }
> 
> //filelist_t dataset[] <csv_mapper; file="filelist.txt">;
> filelist_t dataset[] <csv_mapper; file=@arg("list")>;
> foreach f in dataset {
>      file_t out <regexp_mapper; source=@f.file, match="([^/]+).tar",  
> transform="\1.out">;
>      file_t err <regexp_mapper; source=@f.file, match="([^/]+).tar",  
> transform="\1.err">;
>      (out, err) = minmax(f.file);
> }
> //////
> 
> Here's my input file, 'filelist.txt':
> 
> file
> /scratch20/chad/src/workflow/driventurb_3d_direct_plt_cnt_000340.tar
> /scratch20/chad/src/workflow/driventurb_3d_direct_plt_cnt_000341.tar
> 
> Any idea what's causing the exception?
> 
> By the way, the only reason I'm trying to upgrade is so that I can  
> get disk-space management to work ("<profile namespace="SWIFT"  
> key="storagesize">40000000000</profile>" in sites.xml). My  
> understanding is that if I use VDL rc3, it could overrun the  
> available scratch space and crash: I have 13.3 TB of data to process,  
> but the UC/ANL TG site only has 1.1 TB of scratch space available. So  
> if there's a way to enable scratch-space management in rc3, that  
> should be good enough for now. (I'm a Swift user, not a developer, so  
> I'd rather not be on the bleeding edge if I don't have to.)
> 
> Thanks,
> ccg
> 
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