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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