Monthly Archives: June 2006

XgridDRMAA ObjC interface

I put together some headers for the Objective-C DRMAA interface. They follow the Java bindings pretty closely, with some name changes to match Cocoa naming conventions better, plus the use of NSError instead of exceptions. They also will reuse the … Continue reading

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XgridDRMAA overview

Because GridSweeper implementation details will take longer to hash out, and because I’d love to get the system working with Xgrid as soon as possible (for selfish personal reasons), the first code I will write will be the Xgrid DRMAA … Continue reading

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DRMAA Java: first run

I got a basic DRMAA program running. It lets you execute any command + arguments via the grid. The code is here. compile with: javac -cp $SGE_ROOT/lib/drmaa.jar DrmaaTest.java run with: java -cp .:$SGE_ROOT/lib/drmaa.jar DrmaaTest [command] [args] On a shared-filesystem SGE … Continue reading

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File transfer

In a sophisticated network setup like a typical Sun Grid Engine installation, a GridSweeper user will have the luxury of a shared filesystem, a network home directory, etc., etc., meaning that no files will need to be transferred as part … Continue reading

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SGE basics

Sadly, things never quite worked right on my local install of SGE. But it turns out UM CSCS already has one set up that I can use. So that’s what I’m doing. A summary of basic commands in SGE… qsub … Continue reading

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