[kepler-dev] ssh: Kepler and remote things

[Wibke Sudholt]

Hi,

Sounds very interesting for the Resurgence project (basically, we need just
the same)! In the name of the project I would be very interested, but
unfortunately I personally don't have time to implement anything new right
now :-(

Wibke


On 26.4.2006 17:50 Uhr, "Norbert Podhorszki" <pnorbert at cs.ucdavis.edu>
wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to note that recently I have developed a tiny ssh package
> (not actors) with the singleton design pattern in order to use an ssh
> connection to a remote machine to be able to do nasty things, several
> times, in different actors of the workflow, still typing password (secure
> One-Time-Password) only once.
> 
> You may know from Bertram that I am hired to do plumbing... so all
> workflows coming out my hands are just nasty,
> what-to-avoid-in-Kepler-tutorialable creatures.
> 
> But I have created my job management package and actors and some others
> just silently use the ssh package if it is about using a remote target
> instead of the local machine. A remote machine is for me now just a string
> 'user at host', fed to the actors as a parameter. And I do not need to care
> about it more (since my actors do).
> 
> I do not know what challenges the Resurgence project faces, but I have to
> execute supercomputer jobs, move files between machines, execute external
> programs and watch remote directories for intermediate results. In my
> dreams I run Kepler still on my local machine, while heavy things happen
> remotely.
> 
> I am not planning to put anything into the cvs before the first release,
> but of course all that code is intended to become part of Kepler sometime.
> Maybe others need also develop such actors that can work both locally and
> remotely. For instance, my FileList actor can read a directory content
> either locally using Java's File or a remote (Unix) one with ssh and 'ls'.
> And the output is always just the list of files that had been created
> after the previous check.
> Anyone interested, just contact me.
> 
> Norbert
> 
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Wibke Sudholt wrote:
>> ...
>> work without problems. It would considerably ease my (and probably also
>> other people's) work when it would also be realistically possible to run
>> Kepler remotely via ssh, since at least for the Resurgence project several
>> external codes need to be installed (Nimrod, GAMESS etc.) that you often
>> only want to have installed on a server and not on user machines. Also, it