[Condor-users] Condor in a secure academic environment

["Dan Kirkpatrick" <dckirkpa@xxxxxxx>]

Title: Condor in a secure academic environment

I am attempting to leverage desktops at Syracuse University with Condor (in addition to our clusters), although there are several concerns and questions.  Forgive my questions, I’m just starting to learn and administer Condor.

Can people share their experiences and hurdles in their implementation in a secure enterprise academic environment?

Security:

The main issue is security of client machines and enterprise data that clients have access to.

We have thousands of managed, locked down windows machines on Active Directory.

How secure is the data and access on these machines (especially confidential & enterprise data) by both the daemons and users? 

Would a virtual machine be required to run Linux, or would it be usable if jobs were ported to Windows?

Availability policy:

I’m aware of suspend & preempt if node not idle; is there further policy options, such as:

- only run after business hours

- only run when owner of machine is logged off

- network bandwidth throttling (for buildings with slow network connections)

Thanks,

Dan