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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright 2009-2013 by The Regents of the University of California
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# you may obtain a copy of the License from
+# 
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+
+hostname
+
+#Get the IP address of the cc
+CCHOST_NAME=`cat conf/master`
+CURRENT_PATH=`pwd`
+CCHOST=`ssh ${CCHOST_NAME} "cd ${CURRENT_PATH}; bin/getip.sh"`
+
+#Import cluster properties
+. conf/cluster.properties
+. conf/debugnc.properties
+
+#Clean up temp dir
+
+rm -rf $NCTMP_DIR2
+mkdir $NCTMP_DIR2
+
+#Clean up log dir
+rm -rf $NCLOGS_DIR2
+mkdir $NCLOGS_DIR2
+
+
+#Clean up I/O working dir
+io_dirs=$(echo $IO_DIRS2 | tr "," "\n")
+for io_dir in $io_dirs
+do
+	rm -rf $io_dir
+	mkdir $io_dir
+done
+
+#Set JAVA_HOME
+export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
+
+#Get OS
+IPADDR=`bin/getip.sh`
+
+#Get node ID
+NODEID=`hostname | cut -d '.' -f 1`
+NODEID=${NODEID}2
+
+#Set JAVA_OPTS
+export JAVA_OPTS=$NCJAVA_OPTS2
+
+PREGELIX_HOME=`pwd`
+
+#Enter the temp dir
+cd $NCTMP_DIR2
+
+#Launch hyracks nc
+#echo ${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR  -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS}"
+${PREGELIX_HOME}/bin/pregelixnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -result-ip-address $IPADDR  -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS2}" &> $NCLOGS_DIR2/$NODEID.log &