2 Tasks: debian-science/distributedcomputing
3 Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor
4 Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team@neuro.debian.net>
6 Author: Condor Team <condor-admin@cs.wisc.edu>
9 Published-Title: Condor - A Hunter of Idle Workstations
10 Published-Authors: Michael Litzkow, Miron Livny, and Matt Mutka
11 Published-In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 104-111
13 Registration: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2/
14 Pkg-Description: workload management system
15 Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing
16 mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and
17 resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor,
18 Condor places them into a queue. It chooses when and where to run the jobs
19 based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately
20 informs the user upon completion.
22 Unlike more traditional batch queueing system, Condor can also effectively
23 harness wasted CPU power from otherwise idle desktop workstations. Condor
24 does not require a shared file system across machines - if no shared file
25 system is available, Condor can transfer the job's data files on behalf of