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

From: Alfredo Ferrari (alfredo.ferrari@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Dec 12 2005 - 22:11:35 CET

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    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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