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-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/condor.html
15 Pkg-Description: workload management system
16 Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing
17 mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and
18 resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor,
19 Condor places them into a queue. It chooses when and where to run the jobs
20 based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately
21 informs the user upon completion.
23 Unlike more traditional batch queueing system, Condor can also effectively
24 harness wasted CPU power from otherwise idle desktop workstations. Condor
25 does not require a shared file system across machines - if no shared file
26 system is available, Condor can transfer the job's data files on behalf of