Re: [Condor-users] Parallel processing on condor

[Matt Hope <matthew.hope@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/14/05, Peter Troeger <peter.troeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Your specific problem does not need a parallel program. Condor MW might
> be what you are looking for:
>
> www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/mw/

the website is currently having 'issues' (at least for me)

this may help to give you a flavour of what master worker does

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:XxX4Vne4bd4J:www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/mw/overview.html+condor+mw&hl=en

Note that decomposition of a problem into parallel tasks without a
shared memory space is the hard bit of distributed computing - working
it out requires a human (and is likely to for the forseeable future*).

Matt

* on going in work in things like gcc 4's automatic use of SIMD
instructions are impressive but of little use to a system like condor.