Re: [Condor-users] Condor as an alternative for Boinc for a game

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erwin Ried wrote:
> Hi!
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> I have been using and playing with a lot of vm scenaries with Condor 
> for this last month, and I really need a little help in my learning.
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> I want to serve a "Biological" online videogame that requires the 
> processing of certains actions, for instance, scripts like:
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> START GEN=1
> TIME 10S GEN++
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> So in this simple example, the user should see how every 10 seconds a 
> new gen is generated. (The example is not real, the simulations aren't 
> that simple)
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> The beauty of this system is that almost any user isn't processing his 
> "game scenario" (gens, etc).
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> Questions are:
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> 1) I managed to get a condor install for windows in less than 11 MB (I 
> think can be less than that), but I don't really understand why condor 
> does not start jobs behind a NAT configuration. Can I redirect 
> everything that condor needs by the port 80?

To run Condor execute daemons behind a NAT in windows, you can use CCB.  
However, we just discovered a problem in CCB for windows, so you would 
have to wait for version 7.4.1 to fix that.  It should be released very 
soon.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.4/3_7Networking_includes.html#SECTION00473000000000000000

--Dan