Notes on how to install and execute Swift on various common systems for the AMWG analysis project.

General Information

The general instructions regarding downloading and compiling Swift are at the Swift: Downloads page. In general:

• Remember to download the appropriate cog branch and swift branch. Don't try to build the current swift from the older cog trunk, or in reverse.
• Note that the retrieval of swift from Subversion requires https, but some Subversion clients may be built without https support. In that case, I've been checking out cog and swift on Twister, and then scping/rsyncing the entire tree to the remote system.

Retrieving and Compiling the Source Code

(Keystrokes from the Swift documentation)

$ cd SwiftSupport # (base of the swift installation, usually under Matthew's scratch directory)

$ svn co https://cogkit.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cogkit/trunk/current/src/cog
$ cd cog/modules
$ svn co https://svn.ci.uchicago.edu/svn/vdl2/trunk swift
$ cd swift
$ ant dist

$ cd SwiftSupport # (base of the swift installation, usually under Matthew's scratch directory)
$ ln -s path swift
(e.g., swift -> /users/ncar/mattheww/SwiftSupport/cog/modules/swift/dist/swift-svn)

Source Code edits

Pre-compilation

• Edit the coaster provider to have longer timeouts:

  diff cog/modules/provider-coaster/resources/worker.pl cog/modules/provider-coaster/resources/worker.bak
  126,127c126
  < #my $IDLETIMEOUT = ( $#ARGV <= 2 ) ? (4 * 60) : $ARGV[3];
  < my $IDLETIMEOUT = (60*60*24);
  ---
  > my $IDLETIMEOUT = ( $#ARGV <= 2 ) ? (4 * 60) : $ARGV[3];
  

Dynamic/runtime

• Edit the coaster provider to include debugging information when run in-process with Swift:
  cog/modules/provider-coaster/resources/log4j.properties
  cog/modules/swift/dist/swift-svn/etc

  log4j.logger.org.globus.cog.abstraction.coaster=INFO
  log4j.logger.org.globus.cog.abstraction.impl.common.task.TaskImpl=DEBUG
  

System-Specific Notes

Twister

export JAVA_HOME=/ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport/jdk1.6.0_21
export PATH=/ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/:$PATH
export PATH=/fs/local/bin:$PATH # to get Apache ant

Swift support files are installed in /ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport

ReSET Data-Intensive Prototype

export JAVA_HOME=/ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport/jdk1.6.0_21
export PATH=/ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport/jdk1.6.0_21/bin/:$PATH
export PATH=/ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport/netcdf-3.6.3-icc/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/ptmp/mattheww/SwiftSupport/nco-3.9.9-icc/bin:$PATH

Dash

Swift support files are installed in /users/ncar/mattheww/SwiftSupport

Nautilus

Swift support files are installed in /gpfs/medusa/matthew/SwiftSupport