On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Amila Jayasekara
<[email protected]>wrote:

> +1 Raman.
> Is this going to be in 0.9 ? If so can you please update feature list for
> 0.9 also ?
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Raminder Singh <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> I am working on a use case where these is an asynchronous job submission
>> script for pegasus[1] (Condor Dagman [2]). Submission scripts returns a
>> JOBID to monitor the status.
>
>
> Does pegasus generate above job id ?
>
>
>
>> Monitor script returns the job status using the JOBID provided by
>> submission script. Another script is available to cancel the job.
>>
>> I plan to use SSHProvider to call these scripts. Currently provider only
>> support syncronous submission and does not allow to add a wait thread using
>> another script. According to me, this can be common pattern among other
>> gateway use cases.  This case is true for LocalProvider also.  I can add
>> another provider for my specific case but i think this is a generic case of
>> airavata and need discussion.
>>
>
> Are these scripts specific to pegasus ? If scripts are generic and can
> provide information about running jobs its good to change existing
> providers rather than introducing new one.
>
>
>>
>> If we want to add asyncronous submission and monitoring to current Local
>> and SSH providers following changes are needed
>>
>> 1. Add flag to descriptor to identify execution pattern.
>> 2. Change descriptor to allow users to add monitoring script path.
>> 3. Incase we want to support job cancel, cancel script path also need to
>> be added to descriptors also.
>> 4. Monitoring pattern and status (to make decision) need to be configured
>> using some interface.
>>
>
> In addition to specifying specific script paths can we generate some
> generic scripts to do job monitoring and job cancellation. For example for
> monitoring we can check the process id status. For cancellation we can
> execute a command like "kill -TERM <jobid>".
>
> Further can we make async and sync as an option in the same provider.
> Rather than have a separate provider for Async operations.
>
We can specify this  WorkflowContext header and keep the synchronous
submission as the default one.

WDYT ?

Lahiru

>
> Thanks
> Amila
>
>>
>> Adding Async Local and SSH provider for this case is another option and
>> new descriptors can be added.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Raminder
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>


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