Re: [Condor-users] GUI for Condor

[Trevor McKay <tmckay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

  There is a Web GUI project on Fedora called Cumin for working with a
Condor installation.  The condor daemons run QMF plugins to communicate
with the GUI, and a Qpid messaging broker acts as a middleman (QMF is a
management framework built on the AMQP messaging standard).  

  There is a Wiki starting point here, with links to source code,
instructions on how to build and install, mailing lists on Fedora and a
few other goodies.  

https://fedorahosted.org/grid/wiki/WikiStart#Contactinformation

  Cumin is an open source project at Red Hat -- it is currently packaged
as RPMs for RHEL but available as source for Fedora.  Any feedback
and/or questions are welcome (the cumin mailing lists are probably a
better place for that, though).

Best,

Trevor McKay



On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 13:16 +0100, Felix Wolfheimer wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of introducing Condor in the company I'm
> working for and, thus, face a similar problem as the users are not very
> familiar with the command line and are not comfortable with writing
> scripts to submit their jobs. 
> 
> For this reason I'm implementing several GUI tools which interact with
> the condor tools in the background and give the users in my company the
> possibility to submit, watch and configure their jobs in an easy way. 
> The problem with such tools is typically that they are either so general
> that they are not a great help in making the system easily accessible
> for the unexperienced user or they are so tailored to a certain
> application that they are not really of general use. 
> 
> To create the input files for condor_submit I'm using a "wizard like"
> interface which asks the user for the settings important to select a
> certain execution host in our computational environment and the input
> parameters for the software started on the selected execution host. This
> is not too much work to do and with this tool the system was immediately
> accepted by the users. So maybe something like this can be a good
> starting point for you as well.
> 
> Then I have written a more general program which allows the users to do
> the administration of their jobs and to establish remote connections via
> VNC to the execution host of a running job which just starts the wizard
> like application in case the user wants to submit a new job. This
> separation of the job administration (rather general) and job submission
> (rather tailored to the computational environment we have in my company)
> in two different applications allows the first program to be rather
> general. If you are interested I could give you some parts of the code
> which could be of general use as a starting point. It's written in C++
> and uses wxWidgets to handle the cross-platform complexity.        
> 
>      
> 
> Am Freitag, den 04.02.2011, 15:32 +0530 schrieb Raman Sehgal:
> > Hi, This is my first post.
> > Recently i had started practising condor.
> > It works fine, 
> > 
> > Anyone of you knows if there is any GUI for condor. ?
> > I need a GUI that helps the user in creating submit description file.
> > .
> > 
> > Thanks and with Regards,
> > Raman Sehgal
> > 
> > 
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