[Rivet] Running Rivet on the grid

[Peter Richardson]

Hi Andy,

   David can give you more advice but our experience is that installing 
stuff at remote sites, unless you have the manpower resources of say 
ATLAS, is painful and we've essentially given up and don't install 
anything anymore.

   For Herwig++ we essentially send all the libraries we need with the job, 
with the exception of the compiler libraries for gcc3.4.6 which should be 
installed everywhere.

Peter

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Andy Buckley wrote:

> Ben Waugh wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Maybe it's time we had another look at using the CEDAR VO to make better
>> use of the LCG middleware. The data management side of things seems
>> rather better developed now than when we first created the VO, and there
>> may be tools we can use to distribute the required software to any sites
>> that agree to support CEDAR (which will be at least UCL and Durham I
>> hope, and probably the other LondonGrid sites) rather than each job
>> having to download its own set of tarballs.
>
> I wonder if using the Pheno VO would be more sensible --- I've copied
> David (on holiday until Monday) and Peter so they can comment on whether
> GENSER is fully supported on all Pheno-compatible sites. If so, there
> seems little point in duplicating the VO management time.
>
> Incidentally, is it possible to submit a Grid job under, say, the ATLAS
> VO with the condition that it must be sent to a CE which supports the
> Pheno (or CEDAR VO)?
>
> Andy
>
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> Dr Andy Buckley
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> Durham University
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