Re: [HTCondor-users] HTC and HPC

[Dmitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/5/2014 7:33 AM, Nathan W. Panike wrote:
> HPC philosophy is: Let's spend a lot of money on one large monolithic
> piece of hardware.  Because it is expensive, our shiny machine should
> be able to run anything thrown at us.
>
> HTCondor philosophy is:  Tell us what jobs you want to run.  We will
> do the best we can to find a machine to run your job.
>
> HPC is favored by those who sell expensive hardware, like IBM and
> Cray, and also the grant-writers who find it easy to explain what they
> are going to spend their money on.  Meanwhile, HTCondor gets the job
> done, most of the time, if the job demands and resources align, on
> days that end in "y".

OK, on a more serious note a supercomputer has a couple of things 
HTCondor doesn't like shared memory that come handy for some applications.

It's not clear, however, whether OP had a genuine question, was fishing 
for someone to do their homework, or is a buggy spambot set on "troll".

Dimitri