[SAGA-RG] [Saga-users] Several novice question on SAGA

[ye huang]

Hi, Ole and Andre:
Thanks a lot for pretty useful information.

regards
ye


On 25 Nov, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Ole Weidner wrote:

> Hey Ye,
>
> On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:01 AM, ye huang wrote:
>
>> Hi, Dear all
>> I am pretty new to SAGA. Due the installation manuel of SAGA, it  
>> seems SAGA manage jobs' behavior via GT GRAM. In this case, I have  
>> several "green" questions:
>> 1. Do I need to install a complete GT in advance? I mean, is the  
>> installation of GT is mandatory? It seems SAGA installation package  
>> contains a pre-gram subdirectory, is it everything i need?
>
> Nope. You need to have the Globus header and libraries installed in  
> order to build the SAGA preWS GRAM adaptor. Have a look at the  
> installation manual in the docs directory.
>
>> 2. If I don't need GT in advance, how could i submit job to remote  
>> machines(even in the same cluster)? Using "grid-proxy-init" seems  
>> acquire additional GT package?
>
> You need GT in advance ;-)
>
>> 3. I feel SAGA focuses to GT/OMII currently. I wanna know, besides  
>> the aforementioned two middleware, is there other option? For  
>> example, if I only have a "pure" Condor or PBS system (without GT),  
>> could I use SAGA to submit job to the RMSs directly, or with only  
>> help of self-contained GRAM package, instead of a complete GT system?
>
> We currently have job service adaptors for
>
> * Globus preWS GRAM
> * OMII GridSAM
> * Condor
> * Platform LSF (will be part of SAGA 1.1 - to be released in a  
> couple of days)
>
> I don't know if it is possible to build a self contained GRAM  
> package. I guess so - I mean you could just build the GRAM client  
> libraries and, let's say grid-proxy-init. Ask the Globus guys how  
> this works ;-)
>
>> 4. I noticed there are two language binding(C/Java) announced.  
>> However, almost all the presentations are given with example of C  
>> binding. I wanna whether Java binding is able to provide the same  
>> support.
>
> Well, actually we use C++ in all our examples. The API wrappers we  
> currently have for our C++ reference implementation are Python  
> (working) and C (not yet working).
>
> I don't know about the status of the SAGA Java implementation. Maybe  
> one of the Java guys on this list might be able to help?!
>
>>
>> Best Regards
>> ye
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Ole
>
>>
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