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Cly: New page: __TOC__ == Deploying Files to PlanetLab Nodes == To deploy your app to PlanetLab use the command below:

 pscp -h ''nodes.txt'' -l ''slice_name'' -t 180 -p 200 yourapp.tar /home/''s...

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New page: __TOC__ == Deploying Files to PlanetLab Nodes == To deploy your app to PlanetLab use the command below: <pre> pscp -h ''nodes.txt'' -l ''slice_name'' -t 180 -p 200 yourapp.tar /home/''s...

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== Deploying Files to PlanetLab Nodes ==

To deploy your app to PlanetLab use the command below:

<pre>
pscp -h ''nodes.txt'' -l ''slice_name'' -t 180 -p 200 yourapp.tar /home/''slice_name''/yourapp.tar
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 pssh -h nodes.txt -l sfu_games -p 200 -t 600 -o /tmp/test1 "wget -nc http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/tmp/jre-linux.bin"
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 Replace ''slice_name'' and ''yourapp.tar'' with the appropriate values.
-If you are a Linux user, the Ubuntu package to install is the '''pssh''' package. This package contains several commands:
+If you are a Linux user, the Ubuntu package to install is the '''pssh''' package. This package contains several commands (more information on these commands and their usage can be found in [http://www.theether.org/pssh/docs/0.2.3/pssh-HOWTO.html this] HowTo):
 * Parallel ssh (parallel-ssh, upstream calls it pssh), executes commands on multiple hosts in parallel
 * Parallel scp (parallel-scp, upstream calls it pscp), copies files to multiple remote hosts in parallel

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−	The '''-t''' switch denotes the timeout period for each node. For example, ''-t 180'' sets the pscp command timeout period to 3 minutes. A "Timeout" status will be returned if the node failed to response within the timeout period.	+	The '''-t''' switch denotes the timeout period for each node (in seconds). For example, ''-t 180'' sets the pscp command timeout period to 3 minutes. A "Timeout" status will be returned if the node failed to response within the timeout period.


−	The '''-p 200''' denotes the max number of parallel threads for the pscp process. A value of 200 means the process will attempt to copy the file to 200 nodes concurrently. Please do not abuse this setting. You will run out of memory if you spawn too many threads.	+	The '''-p 200''' denotes the max number of parallel threads for the pscp process. A value of 200 means the process will attempt to copy the file to 200 nodes concurrently. Please ''do not abuse this setting''. You will run out of memory on your local machine if you spawn too many threads.

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 == Deploying Files to PlanetLab Nodes ==
-To deploy your app to PlanetLab use the command below:
+To deploy your application/file(s) to PlanetLab nodes, you need the ''parallel secure copy'' command. For Mac users, use the command below:
 <pre>
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 </pre>
 Replace ''slice_name'' and ''yourapp.tar'' with the appropriate values.
 The '''-t''' switch denotes the timeout period for each node. For example, ''-t 180'' sets the pscp command timeout period to 3 minutes. A "Timeout" status will be returned if the node failed to response within the timeout period.

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 Commands
 <pre>
 pssh -h nodes.txt -l sfu_games -p 200 -t 600 -o /tmp/test1 "wget -nc http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/tmp/jre-linux.bin"
 pscp -h nodes.txt -l sfu_games -t 180 -p 200 install_jvm.sh /home/sfu_games/install_jvm.sh
 pssh -h nodes.txt -l sfu_games -p 200 -o /tmp chmod 755 /home/sfu_games/install_jvm.sh
 pssh -h nodes.txt -l sfu_games -p 200 -t 300 -o /tmp ./install_jvm.sh
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 pssh -h nodes.txt -l sfu_games -t 180 -p 200 -o /tmp "tar xvf yourapp.tar"
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 == Installing Java ==

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-pscp -h ''nodes.txt'' -l ''slice_name'' -t 180 -p 200 yourapp.tar /home/''slice_name''/yourapp.tar
+pscp -h ''nodes.txt'' -l slice_name -t 180 -p 200 yourapp.tar /home/slice_name/yourapp.tar
 </pre>