[Condor-users] Just curious how you....

[Ian Cottam <Ian.Cottam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just curious if (any) other sites run their Condor Pool the way I (and my
colleagues) do?

Basically, we have PC Cluster rooms all over campus. They run Windows when
students have access to them.
Overnight, at weekends and student vacs we automatically reboot them into
Linux with Condor.
When students are around they, of course, automatically reboot back into
Windows every weekday morning.

We have some separate Linux PCs --about 80 processor cores-- that keeps
things at 'tick over' during the student working day.

The drivers for this approach include: that students never see a slow PC;
and that we don't need rock hard security (if such exists) within Condor
to stop someone destroying our Windows teaching image.


Assuming you don't do it this way, I'm also interested in why not and what
you do do.
-Ian