Re: [Condor-users] Condor package for OSCAR!

[Ian Cottam <ian.cottam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This would certainly be very useful to us here at MIB (part of The 
University of Manchester). I would be happy to test.

Thanks.
-Ian


Amit Vyas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am developing a Condor package[1]  for OSCAR[2] as part of Google 
> Summers of Code [3][4],
>
> For those who don't know OSCAR, "it is a software for installing and 
> managing Beowulf type HPC cluster , where it has one HeadNode and all 
> other client machines which are installed by headnode and required 
> softwares are installed onto them"
>
> Condor package will provide condor installation/configuration to happen 
> on headnode and clients.
> Since there are many advanced configuration condor can take through 
> condor_config I have settled down for most basic of it which can be 
> deployed and can make a cluster ready for condor jobs.
>
>
> A look at [5] will tell Condor can be configured as follows on a Oscar 
> cluster( please know that /home is shared by all cluster machines)
>
> 1. Condor will install as manager and submit node at headnode
> 2. It will be installed as execute mode at all clients.
> 3. it will create a condor service to automatically start condor at reboot.
> 4. Can create condor user for cluster.
> 5. Change config file for Flocking to and from other pools( all client 
> nodes remain in private network generally)
> 6. Can also allow headnode to be a execute node(for small cluster, or 
> testing purpose)
>
> installation happens through rpms , and on all machines  local-dir is 
> /opt/condor-6.8.5/localdir/
>
> My intentions for this mail are to collect question,feedback, 
> suggestions, advices on this so that I can try to do  some  improvements 
> fro 1st release so that it can suit to large condor users/admins , and 
> can learn from experience condor users.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> [1] http://amitvyas.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/condor-package-for-oscar/
> [2] http://oscar.openclustergroup.org/
> [3] 
> http://amitvyas.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/gsoc-2007-globuscondor-package-application-accepted/
> [4] http://code.google.com/soc
> [5] 
> http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=844716578&context=photostream&size=o 
> <http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=844716578&context=photostream&size=o> 
>
> --
> Regards.
> Amit Vyas
>
>
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