6. Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through the basic features of RADICAL-Pilot. Several examples illustrate some common usage patterns in distributed environments.

Prerequisites:

• You are familiar with Linux or UNIX.
• You can read and write Python code.
• You can use SSH and understand how public and private keys work.
• You understand the basic concepts of distributed computing.

You will learn how to:

• Submit multiple jobs through a ‘pilot job’ to your local workstation as well as a remote machine.
• Write programs that run multiple jobs concurrently, sequentially, or both, based on their requirements and dependencies.
• How to specify input files for tasks.
• MPI tasks are different from regular tasks.

Contents:

• 6.1. Simple Bag-of-Tasks
• 6.2. Chained Tasks
• 6.3. Coupled Tasks
• 6.4. MPI tasks