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Neil Voss, 05/27/2010 04:02 PM

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h1. Setup Remote Processing
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The web interface for Appion allows one to directly login to a computer and process Appion jobs. But this requires a job submission system to be installed.
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h2. Types of clusters:
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* Local cluster a.k.a. processing host — this is a cluster that has all of the data directories mounted locally and all processing software installed
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* Remote cluster a.k.a. cluster — this is a cluster that has a limited selection of software and the data is not accessible
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The following applies to the both a web-server computer (setup earlier) and job submission system on a local cluster. The job submission system usually consists of a head node (main computer) and individual processing nodes (slave computers) for running jobs. All of these system CAN exist on an single computer.
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# [[Setup job submission server]]
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# [[Install SSH module for PHP]]
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# [[Configure web server to submit job to local cluster]]
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# [[Testing job submission]]
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# [[Potential job submission problems]]
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h2. Remote Appion Processing through ssh
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# [[Edit the default_cluster.php file]]
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