BigJob2 0.54-40-g398374a

P* Pilot-Job Implementation based on SAGA-Python

BigJob
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The SAGA BigJob framework is a SAGA-based pilot job implementation. The Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) is a high-level, easy-to-use API for accessing distributed resources. SAGA BigJob supports a wide range of application types, and is usable over a broad range of infrastructures, i.e., it is general-purpose, extensible and interoperable. Unlike other common pilot job systems SAGA BigJob
(i) natively supports MPI job and
(ii) works on a variety of back-end systems, generally reflecting the advantage of using a SAGA-based approach.



Web Page & Mailing List
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Web page: <http://saga-project.github.io/BigJob/>

Mailing list:

[[e-mail]](http://groups.google.com/group/bigjob-users)

[[e-mail]](http://groups.google.com/group/bigjob-devel)


Installation
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$ curl https://raw.github.com/saga-project/BigJob/master/bootstrap/bigjob-bootstrap.py -o bigjob-bootstrap.py
$ python bigjob-bootstrap.py $HOME/.bigjob/python/
$ . $HOME/.bigjob/python/bin/activate

See https://github.com/saga-project/BigJob/wiki/ for further information. The Wiki includes among many things information on how to setup BigJob on various machines, e.g. on XSEDE (Ranger, Kraken) or FutureGrid.


Configuration of Redis Coordination Backend
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BigJob requires [Redis](http://redis.io) for communication between BigJob manager/agent. Use the following steps to install Redis.

Mac Homebrew:

brew install redis redis-tools

Linux:
Download Redis http://redis.io/download
Currently only tested with Redis 2.2.12

$ tar -xzvf redis-2.2.12.tar.gz
$ cd redis-2.2.12
$ make
$ make install (if root)


Start Redis (redis-server executable is located in src/ dir):

cd src
./redis-server

Examples:
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<https://github.com/saga-project/BigJob/tree/master/examples/pilot-api>

Please modify COORDINATION_URL on top of example to the correct Redis backend!

Development & Packaging
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Requirements:

* setuptools >0.6c11, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

* setuptools-git >0.3.3, http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools-git/

Building PyPi package

python setup.py build

Upload to PyPi

python setup.py sdist upload