[Swift-user] swift on midway: apps and modules

[David Kelly]

Neil,

Right, it looks like your app is complaining because it is missing a file called nc_table. I think what you need to do is something like this in your script:
file nctable<"nc_table">;

Then pass that file as an argument to your app call:
grb2[ix] = cnvgrib(g, nctable);

Swift will create a new working directory on the worker node for each task. Passing the file as an argument to the app will make sure that it gets staged in and will available to your application. Hopefully this should do the trick.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neil Best" <nbest at ci.uchicago.edu>
> To: "David Kelly" <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> Cc: swift-user at ci.uchicago.edu
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:15:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [Swift-user] swift on midway: apps and modules
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:04 PM, David Kelly <davidk at ci.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > It could possibly be something environmental. Are the modules loaded
> > automatically when you log in through your .bashrc? If they are not
> > already, could you give that a try?
> 
> Good thinking. There is a .modulerc file that gets sourced through
> some mechanism at login other then ~/.bashrc (not sure how) so I added
> it there for good measure.
> 
> 
> >
> > If that doesn't work, try editing sites.xml and try changing
> >
> > <workdirectory>/scratch/local/swift</workdirectory>
> > to
> > <workdirectory>/project/joshuaelliott/narr</workdirectory>
> >
> > Then try the run again and let me know when it's finished. That will
> > just make some extra debugging information available that might
> > better explain why it's failing.
> >
> 
> I tried that also and now got a new error, so that's progress, right?
> It's complaining that it can't open a file that one of the utilities
> needs. I presume that you can get in and look at logs so I won't take
> the time to include snippets here, but maybe that's a bas assumption.
> If we could get this going tomorrow that would be great. Take a look
> at /project/joshuaelliott/narr/narr-20121130-0005-4uhyfkca. Thanks.