Re: [Condor-users] Condor on Windows

[Honggao Liu <honggao.liu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Codor is designed to harness the wasted CPUs. if the machine is idle,
Condor will run job there and can move job to another idle machine if
the current machine is not available(the owner come back and begin to
use the desktop, for example). On windows, Condor doen't support
checkpoint. If the job has to move, it has to be run from beginning.
That is my concern.

On windows machine, we usually don't have shared Filesystem and we
cannot use condor standard universe. To run C or Fortran code, we need
run time libaries and soem DLLs.

On Apr 6, 2005 4:23 PM, Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >1. On windows platform, Condor doesn't support checkpointing, thus it
> >cannot checkpoint the job and move the job to a different windows
> >machine if the current machine is not available. If Condor migrates
> >the job to new windows machine, the job has to run from beginning. How
> >can a long job be
> >finished in a Condor pool of windows Desktop computers? (Of coourse,
> >we can configure not to vacate job, but that is not I want)
> 
> I don't understand this question, can you clarify it? Condor doesn't
> migrate jobs at whim, so how long a job runs depends on your policy and,
> assuming you run jobs on desktops on which user activity removes jobs, when
> your users use their computers.
> 
> >2.What kind of compilers (versions?) are supported under Condor
> >Version 6.7.5 in Windows XP Professional platform? For GNU compilers,
> >does I have to use Cygwin to compile C and Fortran codes?
> 
> It doesn't matter on Windows. It only matters for standard universe on
> platforms that support standard universe.
> 
> Condor will even run your job if you write it in COBOL.
> 
> -alain
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