Re: [Condor-users] General file stage-in Condor-G

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 5:03 PM, Gabriel Mateescu wrote:

> I would like to do file stage-in in Condor-G,
> such that the source file is not on the file
> system local to Condor-G, but on a remote
> GridFTP server.
>
> Condor-G supports staging-in files from the
> submit machine to a GT4 Grid Resource, e.g.,
>
>   transfer_input_files = /path/to/file
>
> is translated by Condor-G to
>
> <fileStageIn>
> <transfer>
>  <sourceUrl>gsiftp://LOCAL_HOSTNAME:40000/path/to/file</sourceUrl>
>
> <destinationUrl>file:///${GLOBUS_SCRATCH_DIR}/job_HASH/file/</ 
> destinationUrl>r
> </transfer>
> </fileStageIn>
>
> which works well since Condor-G starts a local
> GridFTP server.
>
> Assume now that the input file is on another machine
> with a GridFTP service, call it FILESERVER.
> Then I would like to have the semantics of
>
>   transfer_input_files = gsiftp://FILESERVER/path/to/file
>
> but Condor does not allow the value of transfer_input_file
> to be the URL of a remote file.

This is something that should be relatively easy to add. There's been  
little demand for it in the past.

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