Re: [HTCondor-users] Integrating a novel device

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/22/22 1:50 AM, Kandes, Martin wrote:
> Hi Condor team,
>
> I was curious if there was an ad-hoc way to integrate a novel device 
> available on nodes in a condor cluster for scheduling. e.g., something 
> that looks kind of like a gpu, but is a different type of accelerator.


Yes. Assuming this accelerator is attached to a cpu in some way (like an 
FPGA, maybe), you can define it as a "Custom Machine resource".  There 
is info in the manual about this here: 
https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin-manual/configuration-macros.html#condor-startd-configuration-file-macros


Or, we have a short video tutorial about this that we gave in the 
context of GPUs, but will work for other devices as well here:

https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/tutorials/videos/2014/GPU.html


-greg