On 02/09/13 10:35, Matt Doidge wrote:
> Weighing in a bit late on this.
>
>> Another issue with a central UI service is that it's more of a problem
>> for users to send their jobs and also recover their output - it would
>> all have to go through the central service which would be a bit of a
>> pain, certainly for production level stuff.
>>
>> Out of interest, would it be possible for us to provide a version on
>> CVMFS instead? Then users can just mount that and be confident it's up
>> to date, etc.
>>
>> Just an idea :)
>
> Ta da:
>
> https://ggus.eu/ws/ticket_info.php?ticket=96030
>
> There is a tarball UI in cvmfs, although it's only set up for the big
> three + dteam. You need to enable the grid.cern.ch repo to have a gander
> at it. There's worker nodes in that there repo too.
>
> I'm interested in what Steve was proposing, as I can easily roll that
> into the tarballs - making them much more complete.
That would be great. It probably takes a lot of the hassle out of
keeping a UI up to date with changes. It will only work on SL machines,
I suspect (though perhaps it's worth checking whether it works in Debian).
Chris
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