Documentation

Swift Quickstart

This guide describes the steps needed to download, install, configure, and run the basic examples for Swift.

• Quickstart Guide

Swift Tutorials

This hands-on tutorial gives a quick (~20 minute) taste of Swift. It shows you how to run Swift workflows on various computation resources such as Beagle (UChicago), Blues (LCRC), Edison (NERSC), EC2 (Amazon), Open Science Grid, Stampede (XSEDE/TACC), Swan (Cray MPN). The tutorial containes a complete list.

Swift User Guide

The User Guide provides more detailed reference documentation and background information on swift. It is assumed that the reader is already familiar with the material in the Quickstart and Tutorial documents.

• Latest (0.96) [html] [pdf]
• Interim (0.95) [html] [pdf]
• Trunk [html] [pdf]
• Preview of new User Guide (Under construction) [html]

Swift Siteguide

This document will guide new users to run Swift in a variety of different environments.

• Latest (0.96) Under construction
• Interim (0.95) [html] [pdf]
• Trunk [html] [pdf]

Old Documents

The following are older tutorials for Swift 0.95/0.94:

• Swift on your local machine
• Swift on Clouds and Ad Hoc collections of workstations
• Swift on OSG Connect
• Swift on Crays
• Swift on RCC Midway Cluster at UChicago / Slurm

These take about 20 minutes. Try the one(s) for the computing resources you have access to.
Our older tutorial, worth a quick read, can be found here