Pilot submission for use in VOs other than Atlas

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Motivation

Creation of a friendly user tool for panda job submission. Immediate applications include:

• CHARMM
• SBGRID
• Neutrino experiment (LBNE) at DUSEL.
• Integration Testbed of OSG (ITB)

Getting ready

wget http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/~caballer/panda/demo/sendjobs.tar 
tar xvf sendjobs.tar
cd sendjobs
source setup.(c)sh  

Options

• njobs = number of jobs to be submitted
• verbose = verbosity level
• transformation = url with the payload (or job) to be executed by a pilot
• computingSite = panda site to submit the job
• prodSourceLabel = label to mark the job. This label will be used by the pilot to perform the matchmaking.
• processingType = label to mark the job.
• jobParameters = parameters sent to the job

Examples

$ ./sendJob.py --njobs 1 --computingSite TEST2 --transformation http://www.myserver.com/mytest.sh --prodSourceLabel user --cloud OSG
$ ./sendJob.py --njobs 1 --computingSite TEST2 --transformation http://www.myserver.com/mytest.sh --prodSourceLabel user --cloud OSG --jobParameters "a b c 1 2 3"

API

sendJob.py can be used as an API. An example of client file using it would look like

from sendJob import *
from taskbuffer.JobSpec import JobSpec

options = Options()
options.njobs = 3
options.verbose = 1

job = JobSpec()
job.transformation = "http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/~caballer/panda/transformations/trivial_test.sh"
job.computingSite = "TEST2"
job.prodSourceLabel = "user"
job.jobParameters = "a b c 1 2 3"

submission = submissionAPI()

submission.options = options
submission.job = job

submission.makeJobList()
submission.submit()

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Major updates:
-- TWikiAdminGroup - 10 Feb 2012

• sendjobs.tar: sendjobs.tar