[Swift-user] Re: [Swft] joining up with swift users

[Michael Wilde]

Erin,

I think its best to start with one or two systems and master them first.

When you are ready to try OSG, its best to do this via the "engage" VO, 
as that VO has a good support team and also tests the sites in the VO 
for correct operation for the VO members.

OSG has no "login" hosts: you need to do everything via globus-job-run 
and globus-url-copy.

UberFTP is a convenient way to "login" to OSG sites to peruse files and 
manage files and directories (basically any subcommand of FTP is 
available: ls, pwd, mkdir, rm, etc)

When you get to the point of wanting to put R at several OSG sites, you 
can do one manually using "pacman" and then used "ADEM" to automatically 
install it on many sites.  Thats experimental software, for which we 
need to post a link to the latest docs. Done by Zhengxiong Hou, a CS 
grad student from China who spent last year at CI and recently returned 
home.  He's still eager to see people use, test, and improve ADEM.

Ben may have further (or better) pointers.

- Mike



On 6/3/09 9:52 AM, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
> Hi Mike:
> 
> In order to use OSG, should I just log into osgedu.cs.clemson.edu, or is 
> there a tp-something to log into, please?
> 
> Thanks,
> Erin
> 
> 
> Erin M. Hodgess, PhD
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgesse at uhd.edu
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Wilde [mailto:wilde at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Wed 6/3/2009 8:04 AM
> To: Hodgess, Erin
> Cc: Swift User Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Swft] joining up with swift users
> 
> I think good sites to use for initial work are TeraPort (fast queue) and
> uc-teragrid, and Ranger to work with Sarah's SEM scripts.
> 
> I suggested later usong using OSG and the swift-osg-ress-site-catalog
> command (after the COndor-G provider is tested further). Is this command
> documented? I thought there was a section describing it in the Users
> Guide "How-To Tips for Specific User Communities" section, but I was
> mistaken.
> 
> - Mike
> 
> 
> On 6/3/09 7:13 AM, Michael Wilde wrote:
>  > Erin will be using the SIDGrid/CNARI TG allocation.
>  >
>  > - Mike
>  >
>  > On 6/3/09 2:39 AM, Mihael Hategan wrote:
>  >> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 22:08 -0500, Hodgess, Erin wrote:
>  >>> Hi Swift users!
>  >>
>  >> You are probably looking for either swift-devel at ci.uchicago.edu or
>  >> swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu or both.
>  >>> Do I need to sign up to join you, please?
>  >>
>  >> Instructions for joining those mailing lists are at
>  >> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/support/index.php.
>  >>> Also, could someone direct me to a good sites.xml file please?
>  >>
>  >> What sites are you looking forward to using? Do you have a Teragrid
>  >> allocation?
>  >>
>  >> Mihael
>  >>
> 
>