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First things first: this post covers how to get the GridSweeper build environment set up on your machine. I’ve developed GridSweeper entirely with Eclipse, but the build process uses Ant, so it can be run from the command line as well (or, theoretically, any other Ant-compatible IDE).

To get GridSweeper building on your machine, you’ll need to get threefour things:

1. The code distribution (trunk), checked out into your Eclipse workspace. Soon to be hosted at CSCS.
2. An implementation of the Java Distributed Resource Management Application API (DRMAA). For CSCS/Linux, you should use the one provided by the Sun Grid Engine (in /appl/sge/drmaa.jar on CSCS machines). For building on my Mac, I’m using my XgridDRMAA implementation.
3. Jakarta Commons Net (download page). This is for FTP file transfer, which won’t actually be relevant for CSCS—maybe I can modify the build system to make this optional.
4. Jakarta ORO (download page), also for FTP. You won’t even realize you’re missing this until you get an obscure class not found error at runtime when using any of the FTP directory methods.

If you’re using Eclipse (recommended), open up the project in your workspace. Add the DRMAA and Jakarta Commons Net jar files (Project > Properties > Java Build Path > Add External JARs…), and, in theory, the project should build.

Next: evaluating the code.

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