On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:15:48 -0400 Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Ned> > I am interested in soliciting experiences deploying, using and Ned> > maintaining the Ned> > Condor batch processing system, especially under Linux / Debian. Ned> > Ned> > Our use would predominantly be many small jobs, rather than a few large Ned> > jobs, Ned> > with runtimes measured in a few hours. Probably only a handful of Ned> > nodes, on Ned> > the order of half a dozen, in total.[1]
Ned> I don't know anything about condor, or torque. The obvious Ned> choice to me would be SGE. I wonder what advantage there is to Ned> using something other than SGE? Well, the area where condor is pretty much the undisputed king is in the scavenger arena. The basic idea is that you could deploy condor on top of your regular desktops and jobs would be deployed to use wasted cycles (during idle periods or on a set schedule, etc). -nld _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
