Re: [Condor-users] Condor+Globus

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Steven Timm wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Gino wrote:
>
> > Hy. Sorry if I use the same topic, for asking another question about
> > Condor and Globus.
> >
> > I'm actually using only a condor pool but I want to build up another
> > pool, far away from the first. I want to use Globus in order to  
> > study it
> > and mainly to use its own grid security infrastructure, but,  
> > before to
> > start to try to devlope such structure ,I need some explanations.  
> > Sorry
> > if I bother you.
> > The first question is: in order to use Condor and Globus togheter,  
> > have
> > I to install Globus over every machine in both pool, or can I install
> > Globus only over the two central managers?
>
> It depends on what you are going to do with Globus.  In the Open
> Science Grid the globus services run only on the manager nodes and
> the client machines only have client software so they can access
> globus-url-copy and such.  In some other installations, where
> the workers can't access the grid, there are no globus installation
> necessary at all.
>
> I believe that Condor comes with enough internal GSI stuff to
> do its own GSI functions and is not dependent on the globus
> toolkit for that but I could be wrong.

Correct. If all you want from Globus is GSI's strong authentication,  
then Condor has what you need already built-in. You can also use  
Flocking or Condor-C to move jobs between the two pools.

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