HTCondor

The development of HTCondor started in 1988. HTCondor was formerly known as Condor; the name was changed in October 2012 to resolve a trademark lawsuit. HTCondor was the scheduler software used to distribute jobs for the first draft assembly of the Human Genome. ==Example of use==

The NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility (NAS) HTCondor pool consists of approximately 350 SGI and Sun workstations purchased and used for software development, visualization, email, document preparation, and other tasks. Each workstation runs a daemon that watches user I/O and CPU load. When a workstation has been idle for two hours, a job from the batch queue is assigned to the workstation and will run until the daemon detects a keystroke, mouse motion, or high non-HTCondor CPU usage. At that point, the job will be removed from the workstation and placed back on the batch queue. ==Features==

HTCondor can run both sequential and parallel jobs. Sequential jobs can be run in several different "universes", including "vanilla" which provides the ability to run most "batch ready" programs, and "standard universe" in which the target application is re-linked with the HTCondor I/O library which provides for remote job I/O and job checkpointing. HTCondor also provides a "local universe" which allows jobs to run on the "submit host". In the world of parallel jobs, HTCondor supports the standard Message Passing Interface and Parallel Virtual Machine (Goux, et al. 2000) in addition to its own Master Worker "MW" library for extremely parallel tasks. HTCondor-G allows HTCondor jobs to use resources not under its direct control. It is mostly used to talk to grid and cloud resources, like pre-WS and WS Globus, Nordugrid ARC, UNICORE and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. But it can also be used to talk to other batch systems, like Torque/PBS and LSF. Support for Sun Grid Engine is currently under development as part of the EGEE project. Other HTCondor features include "DAGMan" which provides a mechanism to describe job dependencies. == See also ==