Re: [Condor-users] Condor with power saving PCs

[Ian Alderman <alderman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:37 AM, Smith, Ian wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I've spent quite a bit of time recently getting Condor to work
> with our Win XP pool on PCs that employ power saving (that is
> they shutdown after 30 min of inactivity if no one is logged on).
> This was a good deal more fiddly than I first anticipated. If anyone
> is interested I'll post the details here. With full economic costing
> coming in in UK academia I think this could be a growing concern.
>
> regards,
>
> -ian.
>
> ------------------------------
> Dr Ian C. Smith
> e-Science Team,
> University of Liverpool,
> Computing Services Department.

Ian,

We've had some questions about this in the past.  Details would be  
welcome.  How do you get the PCs to come back on when a job is  
available?  How does Condor distinguish between a machine that is  
power saving and a machine that is really off?

-Ian