Thanks Jianwu. <div>So how do I go about using the Data Grid File Transfer actor?<div><br><div>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)</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just for reference, I am pasting the scenario again mentioned in the manual: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">"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</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><div>resource, and then fetch the results back to the local environment or copy them to another</div><div>
resource/database."</div><div><br></div><div>...Including Kepler-Dev in the loop too..</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: arial; font-size: small; ">Thanks.</span></div>
</span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Jianwu Wang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jianwu@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">jianwu@sdsc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi Matt,<br>
<br>
DICE group (<a href="http://diceresearch.org/DICE_Site/Home/Home.html" target="_blank">http://diceresearch.org/DICE_Site/Home/Home.html</a>) 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
<a href="https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/modules/actors/src/org/srb/DataGridTransfer.java" target="_blank">https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/modules/actors/src/org/srb/DataGridTransfer.java</a>.
<br>
<br>
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, <a>file:///myDir/myfile.txt</a>,
<a href="mailto:irods://username:password@myhost.org:1247/myDir/myfile.txt" target="_blank">irods://username:password@myhost.org:1247/myDir/myfile.txt</a>,
<a href="mailto:srb://username.domain:password@myhost.org:5544/myDir/myfile.txt" target="_blank">srb://username.domain:password@myhost.org:5544/myDir/myfile.txt</a>, or ftp
and http urls. <br><div>
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<pre cols="72">Best wishes
Sincerely yours
Jianwu Wang
<a href="mailto:jianwu@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">jianwu@sdsc.edu</a>
<a href="http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/" target="_blank">http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/</a>
Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, U.S.A. </pre>
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Matt Jones wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">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?<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, subhav
mital <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mital.subhav@gmail.com" target="_blank">mital.subhav@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">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.
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks!!</div>
<div>
<div>
<div><br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jianwu
Wang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jianwu@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">jianwu@sdsc.edu</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">Hi Subhav,<br>
<br>
Please try the workflows at
<a href="https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/workflows/srb/" target="_blank">https://code.kepler-project.org/code/kepler/trunk/workflows/srb/</a>,
which
has test account for SRB. If you want to have your own account, you can
apply through SRB mailing list: <a href="mailto:srb@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">srb@sdsc.edu</a>.<br>
<pre cols="72">Best wishes
Sincerely yours
Jianwu Wang
<a href="mailto:jianwu@sdsc.edu" target="_blank">jianwu@sdsc.edu</a>
<a href="http://users.sdsc.edu/%7Ejianwu/" target="_blank">http://users.sdsc.edu/~jianwu/</a>
Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory
San Diego Supercomputer Center
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, U.S.A. </pre>
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subhav mital wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">
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<div>Hello,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I was trying to use SRB actors and believe that I need to
set up
an account to get a certificate on the website?</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>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 </div>
<div>certain workflows...</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks.</div>
</div>
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