[Swift-user] sites file question

[Jonathan Monette]

Ok.  thanks. I'll take a look at that.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Michael Wilde <wilde at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> 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
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 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.
> --
> Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
> touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
> - Albert Einstein
>
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> Michael Wilde
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> Mathematics and Computer Science Division
> Argonne National Laboratory
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
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