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Introduction

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Getting started with Bosco

Bosco is a job submission manager designed to manage job submissions across different resources.  It is needed to submit jobs from local machines to openstack.

Make sure you have an account on our local machine atlas.its.utexas.edu.

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ssh atlas.its.utexas.edu
curl -o bosco_quickstart.tar.gz ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/condor/bosco/1.2/bosco_quickstart.tar.gz
tar xvzf ./bosco_quickstart.tar.gz
./bosco_quickstart

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Bosco Quickstart
Detailed logging of this run is in ./bosco_quickstart.log

************** Starting Bosco: ***********
BOSCO Started
************** Connect one cluster (resource) to BOSCO: ***********
At any time hit [CTRL+C] to interrupt.

Type the submit host name for the BOSCO resource and press [ENTER]: 
No default, please type the name and press [ENTER]: utatlas.its.utexas.edu
Type your username on utatlas.its.utexas.edu (default YOURFANCYLDAP) and press [ENTER]: 
Type the queue manager for utatlas.its.utexas.edu (pbs, condor, lsf, sge, slurm) and press [ENTER]: condor
Connecting utatlas.its.utexas.edu, user: csriley, queue manager: condor
source ~/bosco/bosco_setenv

Here is a quickstart guide about BOSCO:
https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/CampusGrids/BoscoQuickStart

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This may take some time to configure and test, but when it finishes, you should run.

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source ~/bosco/bosco_setenv

Then you will be able to submit jobs as if you were running condor!
And lastly, if you are looking for a more detailed guide on Bosco