[kepler-dev] [kepler-users] SRB account needed ?

[subhav mital]

Thanks Jianwu. So how do I go about using the Data Grid File Transfer actor?
Do I need an SDSC account? Are there any sample workflows which I can see to
understand and learn? (The Globus actors don't work and the SRB actors
require me to have an account)

My primary interest would be regarding the scenario mentioned in the User
Manual in a Windows environment. These files may be excel files, for eg,
which are being transferred to the server, some modifications being made
there, and copied back to the client.

Just for reference, I am pasting the scenario again mentioned in the
manual: "A very common scenario is the following: a user needs to copy (or
stage) a set of files from one resource (e.g., the local environment) to a
remote resource, run a computational experiment on that remote
resource, and then fetch the results back to the local environment or copy
them to another
resource/database."

...Including Kepler-Dev in the loop too..

Thanks.




On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jianwu Wang <jianwu at sdsc.edu> wrote:

>  Hi Matt,
>
>     DICE group (http://diceresearch.org/DICE_Site/Home/Home.html) has
> iRODS service now. Yet the previous SRB service is still there. My tests two
> months ago for SRB actors still work. For iRODS service, they implemented a
> new actor called DataGridTransfer. I checked it in Kepler 1.x. It's url at
> kepler trunk is
> https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/modules/actors/src/org/srb/DataGridTransfer.java.
>
>
>     The DataGridFileTransfer actor has functionality similar to the
> SRB/IRODS commands, namely Sget, Sput, iget, and iput. DataGridFileTransfer
> allows users to copy one or more objects from one local/remote file system
> to another local/remote file system. The following actor expects as input a
> reference to local or remote file systems support by the Jargon API . This
> reference connection is created from the source and destination URL values,
> Currently available file system URLs are, file:///myDir/myfile.txt,
> irods://username:password@myhost.org:1247/myDir/myfile.txt,
> srb://username.domain:password@myhost.org:5544/myDir/myfile.txt, or ftp
> and http urls.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Sincerely yours
>
> Jianwu Wangjianwu at sdsc.eduhttp://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/
>
> Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
> San Diego Supercomputer Center
> University of California, San Diego
> San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
>
>
>
> Matt Jones wrote:
>
> I've learned that SDSC seems to be migrating away from the SRB and instead
> setting up a new iRODS service.  Certainly that may affect the accounts that
> people use, and it may also have implications for whether the SRB actors
> continue to function properly -- I'm not sure if the iRODS server uses the
> same API as the SRB server, so its not clear to me if they will be backwards
> compatible.  Ilkay -- do you know who might be able to clarify compatibility
> plans with the new service at SDSC?
>
> Matt
>
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, subhav mital <mital.subhav at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot, Jianwu. I was able to download these workflows but unable to
>> run them due to the certificate error I guess. I have emailed the admin and
>> am waiting for a reply to get my account set up.
>>  Thanks!!
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jianwu Wang <jianwu at sdsc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Subhav,
>>>
>>>     Please try the workflows at
>>> https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/workflows/srb/, which
>>> has test account for SRB. If you want to have your own account, you can
>>> apply through SRB mailing list: srb at sdsc.edu.
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Sincerely yours
>>>
>>> Jianwu Wangjianwu at sdsc.eduhttp://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/ <http://users.sdsc.edu/%7Ejianwu/>
>>>
>>> Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
>>> San Diego Supercomputer Center
>>> University of California, San Diego
>>> San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> subhav mital wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>  I was trying to use SRB actors and believe that I need to set up an
>>> account to get a certificate on the website?
>>>
>>>  So in this case, do we use the account already set up for Kepler Users
>>> since I do not have a data or compute allocation and wish to have one to
>>> run
>>> certain workflows...
>>>
>>>  Thanks.
>>>
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