[kepler-users] Simultaneous Workflow runnings

[Christopher Brooks]

Hi Josep Maria,
I just created ptolemy/moml/MoMLCommandLineApplication.java,
which takes command line arguments that set model parameters.
MoMLCommandLineApplication.java extemds MoMLSimpleApplication.java
This new code is in the Ptolemy II ptII development svn repository.

Using this within Kepler-1.0 might be a little tricky because
after Kepler-1.0 was released, I moved
ptolemy/actor/gui/MoMLSimpleApplication.java to
ptolemy/moml/MoMLSimpleApplication.java

To get ptolemy/moml/MoMLCommandLineApplication.java to work,
I made some of the fields in ptolemy/moml/MoMLSimpleApplication.java
public.

I've left a tar file of the changes at
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh/tmp2/moml.tgz

To use this file, you would need to build Kepler-1.0 from source.
Then untar these changes in the ptII/ptolemy/moml directory.
Offhand, I'm not sure where that is, but you could search for
MoMLParser.java, which is also located in ptII/ptolemy/moml
directory.

You would also need to modify
src/org/kepler/loader/Kepler.java so that it invoked
the new class.

The line
className = "ptolemy.actor.gui.MoMLSimpleApplication";

would become:

className = "ptolemy.moml.MoMLCommandLineApplication";

I updated the Ptolemy II faq with a note about this, see
http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptolemyII/ptIIfaq.htm#invoking%20Ptolemy%20II?

I'm closing
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3529
that covers this enhancement.


Let me know if you have problems getting this built,
no need to cc the list . . .

_Christopher


Josep Maria Campanera Alsina wrote:
> Well,
> If that the solution, there is nothing I can do! I'll wait until next
> version of Kepler for simultaneous GUI execution ! (by the way when
> new version will come up?)
> 
> But as it is said, if I run the workflow without GUI and cache it
> works: OK! kepler.sh -runwf -nogui -nocache workflow.xml &
> 
> However in that case parameters cannot be included, like -x 4 -y
> "foo". I posted also this bug in the email list months ago. Chad
> Berkley answered: "The problem is that headless kepler uses the
> MoMLSimpleApplication which does not accept command line params.
> We're going to add a bug about this and try to get it addressed soon.
> I'll keep you updated." Any update regarding this problem?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Josep Maria,
> 
> 
> 2009/2/26 Christopher Brooks <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu>:
>> Hi Josep,
>> I'm just returning from vacation and catching up on my email, so
>> I'm not sure if this was handled or not.
>>
>> There is a problem with running multiple versions of Kepler because
>> of the hsqldb database.  For details, see
>> http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2315
>>
>> When you started up the second GUI, did you see a stack trace?
>>
>> I believe that in Kepler-1.0.0, various efforts were made to create
>> shell scripts that would run commands without the GUI and without
>> hsqldb, thus avoiding this issue.
>> There are some instructions at
>> https://dev.kepler-project.org/developers/reference/executing-kepler-from-the-command-line
>> but I could not run Kepler-1.0.0 from the command line twice
>> and avoid the bug.
>>
>> Another trick would be to run each instances of Kepler from a separate
>> user account.
>>
>> In the devel tree, the build system is being reworked and some
>> of these issues are being addressed.  You could take a look at
>> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/kepler/pipermail/kepler-dev/2009-February/013822.html
>> for more information.
>>
>> _Christopher
>>
>> Josep Maria Campanera Alsina wrote:
>>> Dear users,
>>>
>>> I've launched a 3-days long workflow with the GUI that uses job
>>> command actors in order to submit computational chemistry jobs to a
>>> cluster computer. I've noticed that if I open a new GUI and I want to
>>> launch a new workflow that run also a job submission it does not work.
>>> Rapidly, the new workflow shows the wrapping up message without
>>> executing the workflow.
>>>
>>> Why is that? How can I overcome this? I would like to run
>>> simultaneously several workflows with the job submission capability.
>>> Is that possible? If I launch both workflows in a non-graphical mode
>>> they will run?
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>> Josep Maria Campanera,
>>>
>>> I'm running Kepler 1.0.0 (May 2008) under Linux (openSUSE 10.2, X86-64)
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------
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>>> Fax: +34 93 4035987
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> 
> 
> 

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Christopher Brooks (cxh at eecs berkeley edu) University of California
CHESS Executive Director                      US Mail: 337 Cory Hall
Programmer/Analyst CHESS/Ptolemy/Trust        Berkeley, CA 94720-1774
ph: 510.643.9841 fax:510.642.2718	      (Office: 545Q Cory)
home: (F-Tu) 707.665.0131 (W-F) 510.655.5480