5.2. Submitting a job

Before showing programming examples, let us briefly review the options that are available when a job is submitted. The easiest way to do this is to look at the commands that are available. Once you understand the types of things you might do from the command line, it will help you better understand what you must do programmatically when writing your application.

5.2.1. Shells commands

The Globus Toolkit provides several shell commands that can be easily invoked by an application. In this case, the application may be a wrapper script that launches one or more jobs. The commands that can be used to launch a job include:

  • globus-job-run

  • globus-job-submit

  • globusrun

  • gsissh (not really a Globus job submission command, but provides ...

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