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=====What is Condor?===== | =====What is Condor?===== |
[[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/|Condor]] is a high-throughput computing system. Similar to a high-performance computing system, which is the most typical kind of supercomputer, a "high-throughput computing system" is designed to process very large amounts of data with distributed computational resources. Since such programs are typically limited with respect to reading and writing the data, high performance is needed in the realm of data access and manipulation rather than in processing speed. In order to accomplish this, the system provides an efficient way to store and access data while providing computational resources that allow the data to be processed by many machines once if the data permits.((Ideally, the data is organized in such a way that it can be processed in many independent segments that do not rely on other segments in order to make progress.)) | [[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/|Condor]] is a high-throughput computing system. Similar to a high-performance computing system, which is the most typical kind of supercomputer, a "high-throughput computing system" is designed to process very large amounts of data with distributed computational resources. Since such programs are typically limited with respect to reading and writing the data, high performance is needed in the realm of data access and manipulation rather than in processing speed. In order to accomplish this, the system provides an efficient way to store and access data while providing computational resources that allow the data to be processed by many machines at once if the data permits.((Ideally, the data is organized in such a way that it can be processed in many independent segments that do not rely on other segments in order to make progress.)) |
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=====How is Condor Used at W&L?===== | =====How is Condor Used at W&L?===== |
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====Mapping the Universe==== | ====Mapping the Universe==== |
When Condor isn't busy running user jobs, it intelligently runs what are called "Backfill" jobs. This means that when the computers in the Condor cluster aren't busy and Condor doesn't have any jobs to run, Condor participates in volunteer computing projects. Right now, Condor is participating in the [[http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/|MilkyWay@home Project]], which is a project supported and endorsed by [[http://www.rpi.edu/|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] to model the 3D structures in our galaxy. | When Condor isn't busy running user jobs, it intelligently runs what are called "Backfill" jobs. This means that when the computers in the Condor cluster aren't busy and Condor doesn't have any jobs to run, Condor participates in volunteer computing projects. Right now, Condor is participating in the [[http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/|MilkyWay@home Project]], which is a project created and supported by [[http://www.rpi.edu/|Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] to model the 3D structures in our galaxy. |
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=====Condor Documentation===== | =====Condor Documentation===== |
We currently use Condor version 7.6.1. The Condor documentation for version 7.6.1 can be found [[http://condor.cs.wlu.edu/condor/manual/condor-V7_6_1-Manual.pdf|here]]. You can find the official documentation for other versions of Condor on the [[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/|official Condor Project site]]. | We currently use Condor version 7.6.1. The Condor documentation for version 7.6.1 can be found [[http://condor.cs.wlu.edu/condor/manual/condor-V7_6_1-Manual.pdf|here]]. You can find the official documentation for other versions of Condor on the [[http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/|official Condor Project site]]. |
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