Re: [Condor-users] Third-party file staging with Condor-G

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 1, 2008, at 2:36 AM, Jan Ploski wrote:

> For those who wish to use Condor primarily as a Grid
> (meta)scheduler, I see two show-stoppers right now:
> 1) this third-party transfer feature
> 2) proxy renewal (and forwarding to the running job) for GT4

Condor does proxy renewal for GT4 GRAM jobs. If you're not seeing  
this, please report it as a bug.

> > You can fake it by disabling all Condor-managed file transfer in your
> > submit file and adding your own transfer directives like so:
> >
> > transfer_executable = false
> > transfer_input = false
> > transfer_output = false
> > transfer_error = false
> > remote_initialdir = <somewhere>
> > should_transfer_files = NO
> > globus_xml = <file staging directives>
> >
> > This requires you to do your own credential delegation for the
> > transfers.
>
> OK, so the credential delegation would have to happen, for example,  
> in a
> PRE script of a DAG, which would give me the id that I need to  
> reference
> in globus_xml, right?


Correct.

Thanks and regards,
Jaime Frey
UW-Madison Condor Team