Re: [Condor-users] Submitting jobs from Windows XP, Windows Server

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, William Patterson wrote:

> We have a MS Windows environment (XP Pro and Windows Server 2003) and
> would like to submit "compiled' MATLAB jobs to run on Condors systems on
> the University of Wisconsin campus.  It seems that most, if not all, of
> these systems are running some version of UNIX.
>
> I have looked at the documentation and most of it seems oriented towards
> UNIX users.  It is unclear to me if we can submit jobs from MS Windows
> systems to run under Condor on UNIX systems?  Can we submit jobs from
> non-UNIX systems?

Yes, as long as the executable you're submitting is compiled to run on the
remote system. You can find more information here:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6.8/2_5Submitting_Job.html#SECTION00356000000000000000

> Also, we would need to have Condor transfer files needed to run the
> MATLAB procedures.  Is this possible if the files originate on a MS
> Windows system?

Yes. You can find more information here:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v6.6.8/2_5Submitting_Job.html#SECTION00354000000000000000

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