Chapter 6: Deploying The Globus Toolkit 4.0.x

Testing file staging

As user jane on nodeA create the file 'simple-stage-job.rsl' so that it has the contents shown below:

[jane@nodeA ~]$ cat simple-stage-job.rsl

<job>
<executable>/bin/cat</executable>
<directory>${GLOBUS_USER_HOME}</directory>
<argument>helloworld.txt</argument>
<fileStageIn>
<transfer>
<sourceUrl>gsiftp://nodea.ps.univa.com/home/jane/helloworld.txt</sourceUrl>
<destinationUrl>file:///${GLOBUS_USER_HOME}/helloworld.txt</destinationUrl>
</transfer>
</fileStageIn>
<fileCleanUp>
<deletion>
<file>file:///${GLOBUS_USER_HOME}/helloworld.txt</file>
</deletion>
</fileCleanUp>
</job>

The job command file or 'RSL' file declares that the executable on the remote nodeB will be '/bin/cat', it will run in the home directory or the remote user, and the argument will be the name of the input file 'helloworld.txt'.

We also see in the RLS file that the file helloworld.txt will be staged in by transferring it from the home directory of the user on nodeA and placing it in the home directory on nodeB.

Lastly we see that the file on nodeB will be cleaned up when the job is completed.

Before running the job create the file 'helloworld.txt' on nodeA as shown:

[jane@nodeA ~]$ cat helloworld.txt
Hello World from jane on nodeA!

Now run the job from nodeA on nodeB and use the '-f' flag to run the job described in the file 'simple-stage-job.rls':

[jane@nodeA ~]$ globusrun-ws -submit -streaming -F https://nodeb.ps.univa.com:8443/wsrf/services/ManagedJobFactoryService -f simple-stage-job.rsl
Delegating user credentials...Done.
Submitting job...Done.
Job ID: uuid:91b95050-a4a7-11da-bc4c-0011d8b1eb22
Termination time: 02/24/2006 20:04 GMT
Current job state: StageIn
Current job state: Active
Current job state: CleanUp-Hold
Hello World from jane on nodeA!
Current job state: CleanUp
Current job state: Done
Destroying job...Done.
Cleaning up any delegated credentials...Done.