Re: [Condor-users] recommendations for initial campus deployment

[Alain Roy <roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 6, 2011, at 9:39 AM, John-Paul Robinson wrote:
> Therefore, I was wondering if there were any best practices or documents
> for a initial deploys targeting a campus environment of mostly centrally
> managed Windows desktops (at least during the day) with Mac OS and Linux
> in the expected proportions.

Hi John-Paul,

I'm not aware of any best practices documents, but there are a few things that might help you out.

First, many people have given talks at past Condor Week conferences about what they've done, and you might find them useful. Here are a few I picked out:

* Condor To Every Corner Of Campus, by Preston Smith
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2010/condor-presentations/smith-purdue.pdf

* Pools of Virtual Boxes
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2010/condor-presentations/struble-pools-virtual-boxes.pdf

* Condor at EPFL
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2009/condor_presentations/jermini-condorweek09.pdf

Here are some much more technical recipes that could be considered best practices, though they are very focused on specific aspects as opposed to a broad description of deploying a Condor Pool:

https://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=HowToAdminRecipes

And, of course, you can come to Condor Week and ask lots of questions!
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/CondorWeek2011/

I hope this helps.
-alain