The Opal meta service plugin can be used to send jobs to various remote Opal services. You can define several remote hosts for a particular web service, and the web service will run on a random host chosen from this set of remote hosts. In a future Opal release, we may enhance the meta scheduling algorithm.
The <metaServiceConfig> tag in the application configuration file is used to define the location of the meta service configuration file for the particular service. For example,
<metaServiceConfig>/home/opaluser/meta/pdb2pqr.txt</metaServiceConfig> |
The meta service configuration file contains one or more lines, where each line contains a remote Opal service URL followed by a space and then the number of processors on that remote Opal service. Please use 1 as the number of processors for serial services. The sample file below defines the remote hosts for the Pdb2pqr meta service.
http://kryptonite.nbcr.net/opal2/services/pdb2pqr_1.7 1 http://ws.nbcr.net/opal2/services/Pdb2pqrOpalService 1 |