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:mod:`staging` --- Staging of input/output files on a queuing system
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The :mod:`staging` module provides a framework to run python scripts
easily through a queuing system that requires copying of files to the
scratch directory on compute nodes ("staging"). Instead of submitting
a shell script to the queuing system, one uses a python script that
imports the module and instantiates a
:class:`~staging.SunGridEngine.Job` class that contains methods to
manage staging.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   staging/init.txt
   staging/SunGridEngine
   staging/Local