Re: [Condor-users] limit on the number of input files ?

["Dr Ian C. Smith" <i.c.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The trick is to stick the x86 "unzipsfx" executable into the archive
so it doesn't matter which UNIX platform you're on (SPARC, x86 etc).

Use something like:

$ cat Unzipsfx.exe fred.zip > self.exe
$ zip -A self.exe


I tried this using a PowerZip executable and it did
work but truncated the output filename into DOS 8.3 format.
I'm sure there's a way around this.

-ian.


--On 18 April 2005 15:05 +0100 Alan Christy Arokiam 
<alanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ian,
> Just out of curiosity, I thought the execution node was running XP on
> x86, how can a solaris executable (non x86) run on an x86??
> Windows can natively run about 99% of Linux/Unix executables for x86 on
> x86, as long as SFU is installed and the GCC versions match etc, but
> runing zip -A on solaris and using on XP, sounds unlikely to me :-\ , I
> was thinking of zipping it with powerzip on the network.
> Alan
>
> Dr Ian C. Smith wrote:
>
> > I had thought of this - I was just curious to find
> > out the reason why it failed. The Solaris command
> >
> > zip -A
> >
> > looks like it will do the trick. Interestingly the
> > Solaris man page mentions support for the Amiga
> > and VM/CMS. Would that be the "sublime to the ridiculous"
> > or vice versa ? ;-)
> >
> > BTW I notice that the BLAST (the reason for the above)
> > distro from NCBI comes in a handy self-extracting zip form. I've found
> > this really useful in Condor since it recreates
> > the directory structure for all the data files etc
> > (BLOSUM matrices and stuff) on the execution host.
> >
> > -ian.
> >
> >
> >
> > --On 18 April 2005 13:16 +0100 Alan Christy Arokiam
> > <alanca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ian,
> > > A very quick solution, I suppose is to create a self-extracting zip file
> > > and submit that, with a batch file to run it, before your actual
> > > program.
> > > I think we have such a Zipping program on our network.
> > > Hope it helps.
> > > Alan
> > >
> > > Dr Ian C. Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > HI,
> > > >
> > > > Very quick question. Is there a limit on the number
> > > > of input files that can be transferred to an execution host.
> > > > I can transfer about 100 OK but when I tried ~ 500,
> > > > condor_submit dumped core straight away. The total
> > > > size of the files was about 530 KB so much less than
> > > > the 2 GB limit.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > -ian.
> > > >
> > > > -----------------------------------
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