4 title: "Concurrent Crunch tasks"
7 {% include 'pipeline_deprecation_notice' %}
9 In the previous tutorials, we used @arvados.job_setup.one_task_per_input_file()@ to automatically create concurrent jobs by creating a separate task per file. For some types of jobs, you may need to split the work up differently, for example creating tasks to process different segments of a single large file. This tutorial will demonstrate how to create Crunch tasks directly.
11 Start by entering the @crunch_scripts@ directory of your Git repository:
14 <pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">cd $USER/crunch_scripts</span>
18 Next, using @nano@ or your favorite Unix text editor, create a new file called @concurrent-hash.py@ in the @crunch_scripts@ directory.
20 notextile. <pre>~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <code class="userinput">nano concurrent-hash.py</code></pre>
22 Add the following code to compute the MD5 hash of each file in a collection:
24 <notextile> {% code 'concurrent_hash_script_py' as python %} </notextile>
26 Make the file executable:
28 notextile. <pre><code>~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">chmod +x concurrent-hash.py</span></code></pre>
30 Add the file to the Git staging area, commit, and push:
33 <pre><code>~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">git add concurrent-hash.py</span>
34 ~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">git commit -m"concurrent hash"</span>
35 ~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">git push origin master</span>
39 You should now be able to run your new script using Crunch, with "script" referring to our new "concurrent-hash.py" script. We will use a different input from our previous examples. We will use @887cd41e9c613463eab2f0d885c6dd96+83@ which consists of three files, "alice.txt", "bob.txt" and "carol.txt" (the example collection used previously in "fetching data from Arvados using Keep":{{site.baseurl}}/user/tutorials/tutorial-keep.html#dir).
42 <pre><code>~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">cat >~/the_job <<EOF
44 "script": "concurrent-hash.py",
45 "repository": "$USER/$USER",
46 "script_version": "master",
49 "input": "887cd41e9c613463eab2f0d885c6dd96+83"
53 ~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">arv job create --job "$(cat ~/the_job)"</span>
56 "uuid":"qr1hi-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
59 ~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">arv job get --uuid qr1hi-xxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</span>
62 "output":"e2ccd204bca37c77c0ba59fc470cd0f7+162",
68 (Your shell should automatically fill in @$USER@ with your login name. The job JSON that gets saved should have @"repository"@ pointed at your personal Git repository.)
70 Because the job ran in concurrent, each instance of concurrent-hash creates a separate @md5sum.txt@ as output. Arvados automatically collates theses files into a single collection, which is the output of the job:
73 <pre><code>~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">arv keep ls e2ccd204bca37c77c0ba59fc470cd0f7+162</span>
75 ~/$USER/crunch_scripts$ <span class="userinput">arv keep get e2ccd204bca37c77c0ba59fc470cd0f7+162/md5sum.txt</span>
76 0f1d6bcf55c34bed7f92a805d2d89bbf alice.txt
77 504938460ef369cd275e4ef58994cffe bob.txt
78 8f3b36aff310e06f3c5b9e95678ff77a carol.txt