[Swift-user] Questions

[J A]

Hi Ben:

Thanks for your reply.

Does any one have an example on how to do item # 2 below?

Thanks for your cooperation.

Jamal


On 5/12/08, Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2008, J A wrote:
>
> > > 1.  Can i  run swift in a windows application?  if yes, how?
>
> You probably can run Swift on Windows as a client, but you will need a
> unix box to perform the actual execution of work.
>
> > > 2.  Can i call other code (written in another language) from swift?
>
> Swift calls out to unix executables; if you can compile your code into a
> unix executable, then you can call your code that way.
>
> It will not be a JNI / function level link. It will be using Swift's file
> transfer+execute mechanism for calling executables:
>   input data files are copied to whichever machine you will run on
>   your code is executed
>   output data files are copied back
>
> > > 3.  How can swift work with PBS?
>
> There are a couple of mechanisms. If you are running on the head node of a
> PBS cluster, you can use the PBS execution provider. If you are submitting
> to a cluster which has Globus GRAM and PBS both instaleld, then you can
> use one of the GRAM execution providers. The choice of provider is
> specified in the site catalog, libexec/sites.xml.
>
> The user guide contains a section '16. The site catalog' which gives some
> details about configuring this.
>
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