Hi Greg,
Recently, I have been testing the PTP remote function based on RSE.
Following is some potential problems with current remote support of PTP .
By the way, my configuration is PTP 2.1 with RSE-SDK-3.0.
1. The PLDT tool is not availble to remote users since the MPI/OpenMP Artifacts analysis depends on the availabity of MPI/OpenMP header file installed in system.
Unfortunately, Windows users will lack these files on their systems.
2. To establish a remote connection, a rdt server must be running on remote server node. The wiki says that there are two ways to start the remote server, e.g, manual staring or start as daemon. However, only the manual start works for me, and the daemon mode fails to work as expected.
Here are some outputs of the daemon servers:
#cd /home/usr/rdt-server
# perl ./
daemon.pl 4725 10000-10010
Daemon running on: node1, port:4725
launched new server on 10000
On my remote PTP, when trying to open "My Home" directory after connection established, it blocks while fetching children of "My home".
It seems that the connection has established but fetching remote files failed.
3. After establishing remote connection with remote server manually started, it also blocks while trying to import projects from remote filesystem.
4. The process and steps for remote development are so complex that it may frustrate many new(even professional) users.
For example, before creating a new remote project, one has to create remote connection first, which also involves many steps.
And the project creation itself requires complex and confusing configuration like choosing the remote connection, etc.
To be really useful, I think the necessary steps must be simple and short.
Is there anyone here considering these issues?
Or can PTP 3.0 plus RSE 3.1 solve most of them?
In my humble opinion, the remote function is quite attractive and helpful for non-professional HPC users, especially those coming from Windows community. I think the remote application is very important to the application and success for PTP.
How about PTP's plan for further support for remote development?
Maybe we should pay more attention to it.
Regards,
Jie
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