[Swift-user] Swift job environment on NCSA Abe

[Mihael Hategan]

On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 11:46 -0400, Andriy Fedorov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:
> > whats in your sites.xml?
> >
> 
> This was it.
> 
> Here's the original relevant part of my sites.xml:
> 
> <pool handle="Abe-GT4">
>   <gridftp url="gsiftp://gridftp-abe.ncsa.teragrid.org:2811/" />
>   <execution provider="gt4" jobmanager="fork"
>   url="https://grid-abe.ncsa.teragrid.org:8443/wsrf/services/ManagedJobFactoryService"/>
>   <workdirectory>/u/ac/fedorov/scratch-global/scratch</workdirectory>
> </pool>
> 
> In the globusrun-ws test I used "pbs" jobmanager. This makes a big
> difference. I assume, environment is initialized differently for fork
> jobs than for pbs jobs. When I repeat the globusrun test with fork
> provider, I have the same problem, so it's obviously not Swift.
> 
> After substituting jobmanager from fork to pbs in sites.xml, Swift
> works as expected.

"Fork" is Globus for "fork a job on the *head node* and don't use the
queuing system". Which is probably not what you want in general.

Mihael