Thank you both for your fast answers. I will have a look at the grid
schedulers.

Regards,
Sebastian

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Martin Feller [mailto:[email protected]] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 16:36
An: Sebastian Breuers
Cc: Benjamin Henne; GT User
Betreff: Re: [gt-user] GT4 dependencies between subjobs of a multijob

Benjamin Henne wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> AFAIK there is no possibility to define dependencies between multijob's
> subjobs. Execution order and also interpretation of the count element
> depend on the underlying software (JobManager, LRMS, ...). If you use
> multijob, have a look at
> http://bugzilla.globus.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3384. That may be
> interesting for you.
> 

Right, MultiJobs won't work for you.

> What you want is some kind of workflow engine. The gridway scheduler
> also could do this job for you. It enables you to define directed
> acyclic graphs of jobs.
> 

You might also want to have a look at the workflow engine Swift:
http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/swift/index.php

Martin

> Regards,
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> Sebastian Breuers wrote:
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I wondered, if it is possible to write a job description that fits the
>> following case:
>>
>> I have two jobs 'Job1' and 'Job2'. These jobs depend sequentially on
>> each other, i.e. 'Job2' should only be executed when 'Job1' has
>> (successfully) finished.
>>
>> I've found the multijob tag for the xml description but I could not
>> figure out, if there is a possibility to specify that one of the subjobs
>> has to wait for the other job to finish.
>>
>> I've searched the mailing list archive but could not get the clue or a
>> hint.
>>
>> So the question is, if it is at least possible. And if yes, how can I
>> accomplish this behavior.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Sebastian Breuers
>>
>> Dipl.-Biol. Sebastian Breuers       Tel: +49-221-478-7021
> 
> 
> 

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