Re: [HTCondor-users] BOSCO question

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/29/2017 10:44 AM, Zhuo Zhang wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for the reply. The reason that I am asking the job submission 
> manager is that we have three small HTCondor pools, we want something 
> that can submit jobs to multiple clusters simultaneously in order to 
> fully utilize the resources. 

HTCondor can do this itself, and there are several different ways to do so.

If you want this to happen for all jobs submitted to any of the three 
pools, perhaps the easiest way is with flocking.

When a condor_schedd flocks to a remote pool, any idle jobs that don't 
match in the local pool are sent to one or more remote pools. For each 
schedd that you want to flock to a remote pool, just set in that 
schedd's config file:

FLOCK_TO = remotePool1

and in the central manager of remotePool1 one, add the name of the 
schedd machine in the FLOCK_FROM line

FLOCK_FROM = remoteSchedd

There are several other ways to join pools together, but for a small 
number of pools under the same administrative control, I'd start with 
flocking.

-greg