Source: condor Tasks: debian-science/distributedcomputing Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor Responsible: NeuroDebian Team Language: C++, Perl Author: Condor Team License: Apache-2.0 WNPP: 233482 Published-Title: Condor - A Hunter of Idle Workstations Published-Authors: Michael Litzkow, Miron Livny, and Matt Mutka Published-In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 104-111 Published-Year: 1988 Registration: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2/ Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/condor.html Pkg-Description: workload management system Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them into a queue. It chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion. . Unlike more traditional batch queueing system, Condor can also effectively harness wasted CPU power from otherwise idle desktop workstations. Condor does not require a shared file system across machines - if no shared file system is available, Condor can transfer the job's data files on behalf of the user.