[Condor-users] jobs with dependencies

[Michael Thon <mthon@xxxxxxxx>]

Greetings -
I am setting up a small condor pool of linux machines for life science 
computing and I need some configuration advice.  I need to keep a directory 
of files (blast databases for the blastall app) on each execution node in 
sync with the directory on the master node.  Previous advice from others in 
the mailing list suggested that I use local copies of these files rather than 
a shared file system for performance reasons.  I can use rsync to ensure that 
the local copy is syncronized with the master.  The master directory could 
change on a daily basis so I need to ensure that it is synced before a 
blastall job is run.  therefore, I need to run rsync before every blastall 
job.  I see two ways of doing this:
a) submit an rsync job and create a dependency somehow that prevents blastall 
job from running on the node unless the rsync job completes successfully.  
Don't know how to do this but I'm sure it must be supported and documented 
somewhere.  This would also require that rsync job and blastall job run on 
the same node.

b) create a job that actually runs two applications.  This would require some 
kind of wrapper script around the two apps.
 Suggestions/recommendations anyone?
thanks
Mike