[Swift-user] sites file question

[Michael Wilde]

Since you have a run script, you can have it generate the sites file from a shell "here document" in which you can place shell variables, which will get substituted when the here document is referenced. 


David's gew gensites command does this, so you can likely use gensites itself from your run script, with your own sites file templates. 


if you need to, you can pass the same variables into your Swift script via the -param=value parameters at the end of the command line. 


- Mike 

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I have this line in my sites.xml file. <profile key="slots" namespace="globus">10</profile> 


I want to do something like this 

<profile key="slots" namespace="globus">${MONTAGE_WORKERS}</profile> 


Is this possible or another way for this? The reason is depending on the data set i want a different number of workers. Some sets are large and I need to request 100 workers and others are small that 5 will suffice. So I would like to be able to set an environment variable in my run script detailing how many workers to set here. I am using automatic coasters(not passive or persistent). I would like to avoid manual coasters as automatic coasters is working fine for my jobs. I would like to do this so I can only keep one sites file and not a sites file for small, medium, and large data sets. 
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Michael Wilde 
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Argonne National Laboratory 

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