Narayan Desai wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Doesn't it also excel at the whole state/migration thing? E.G. you can 
take a node out for maintenance and migrate a running job off to another 
node by saving the memory state and performing the migration and then 
resuming the job. (May only work for some job configurations)


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