Re: [Condor-users] Master-worker with condor

["Burnett, Ben" <ben.burnett@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi John:

We use MW a fair bit here, but we use sockets for communication (rather than PVM, files, etc.).

-B

On 2010-06-09, at 5:22 PM, John Pybus wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We have some workloads which involve a central process exploring parameter space by partitioning out trial calculations then receiving the result before deciding on new parameters for the next iteration. This can use as many threads as are available, so the number of workers would depend on how many slots are available in the pool rather than deciding at submission time as with the parallel universe.
> 
> This style seems well captured by the Master-Worker workflow documented at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/mw/ .  However MW seems to use Condor-PVM which has disappeared in recent condor versions, and those pages haven't been updated in years.  Is MW still supported?  Does anyone else do M-W style computation with condor, if so what software do you use?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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