Re: running FLUKA in GRID (length of $FLUPRO)

From: Pavol Strizenec (pavol@mail.cern.ch)
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 23:22:46 CET

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     Hi Alberto,

     you are probably wrong, because on Grid your job is running in
    predefined enviroment, where the HOME directory exist only in this
    strange, long format (actually you have a unique HOME for every job).

                    Regards,
                            Pavol Strizenec 

    -- 
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Alberto Fasso' wrote:
> Is it really a problem? One can make a symbolic link with a short name:
> 
> ln -s /var/tmp/edg_wl_scratch/WMS_wn071_027819_https_3a_2f_2flcg16.sinp.
> msu.ru_3a9000_2fPGSM9IKSvubEyi7hGEc3mw   /home/shortname/
> 
> and setenv FLUPRO /home/shortname
> 
> Or am I wrong?
> 
> Alberto
> 
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Alfredo Ferrari wrote:
> 
> > Hi Konstantin
> >
> > those variables are set to character*80.
> >
> > It is easy (obviously...) to increase, only please give a me feeling
> > about a safe max length (not 3000....)
> >
> >                Ciao
> >               Alfredo
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Konstantin Batkov wrote:
> >
> > > Dear FLUKA users,
> > >
> > > Are there any limits for $FLUPRO, $FLUTIL, user's home directory length to
> > > be in FLUKA? If there are limits, is it possible to change them somehow?
> > >
> > > I'm asking this question because I had a problem running FLUKA in GRID.
> > > The task crashes with the following message:
> > >
> > > Abort called from BERSEL reason BREMSS FILE NOT FOUND Run stopped!
> > > STOP BREMSS FILE NOT FOUND
> > >
> > > I supposed that FLUKA cannot find this file because of the limitation of
> > > the maximum number of characters allowed for variables mentioned above. As
> > > you know, the name of user's home dir on CE (computing element in GRID)
> > > looks like very long generated string like this:
> > >
> > > /var/tmp/edg_wl_scratch/WMS_wn071_027819_https_3a_2f_2flcg16.sinp.msu.ru_3a9000_2fPGSM9IKSvubEyi7hGEc3mw
> > >
> > > A user is supposed to keep any files in his home directory, so the number
> > > of characters in variables $FLUPRO, $FLUTIL and user's home dir is
> > > accordingly large.
> > >
> > > In order to find out whether my supposition is truth, I have explicitly
> > > shorten the name of my working dir by creating a temporary directory on
> > > CE: /var/tmp/kbat and used it like my home dir. This way NOT NEARLY
> > > ELEGANT has solved the problem.
> > >
> > > Has anyone faced with the same problem?
> > > Is it really the problem of variable's length? (seems to me, yes)
> > >
> > >
> > >  Konstantin
> > >
> >
> >
> 
>
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