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THE CLIENT INTERFACE
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Software Update will bring up a popup showing all of the servers currently have defined and it
will indicate if each server has the most recent version of the software installed on it. So the
Software Update utility check with us here at Washington University to find out what the
current version of the software is and it then checks each of the servers to see if they are
up-to-date. If the software is not up-to-date log into each out-of-date server as the bayes user
and then update, i.e. reinstall, the software.
3.1.6
the Help menu
The Help menu, not shown, will provide help concerning the current release of the software. There
are four different types of help available:
Release Notes will activate a web browser and download a page that describes the changes in
the current version of the Bayesian Analysis Software. Those release notes contain links to
the main BayesianAnalysis home page and a chain of links that will describe in the previous
releases.
Online Manual will download the current version of the manual and the display that manual in
the Acrobat reader.
Bayes Analysis Home Page will load the home page from the BayesianAnalysis.wustl.edu web
site and bring that page up in the default web browser. That page contains a description of
the software as well as the release notes for the current and previous versions of the software.
Contact Us bring up an email client with my email address in it so that questions can be directly
addressed to me.
3.2
The Submit Job To Server area
Just below the global pull down menus, there are a number of widget groups that are used to
configure a package. These widget groups are different for different packages. And details on a
package specific widget group, consult the chapter on that package. However, their are two widget
groups that are global in the sense that they occur on all packages. In the next two Subsections we
are going to describe these widget groups and their function.
The first of these widget groups is called the “Submit Job To Server” widget group and this
widget group is shown in Fig. 3.10. Below the global menus is an area that is used to configure a
package.
Run will first check to see if all the required elements are set for this particular job. If everything
is properly configured it will create a tar file of the current WorkDir and send it to the server
shown in the server widget group. When the job arrives at the server, it is untared and then
and the requested programs are run. After the job arrives at the server, interface set the status
to either Active or Queued and it will lock most of the widgets on a package. The user is free
to join another analysis or wait for the analysis to finish.
Cancel will cancel a submitted job and remove all files pertaining to that job from the server even
if the job is completed. When finished canceling the job, the interface will set the current