Re: [BLUG] NOV meeting topic

I think someone should add this to Bloomingpedia:

http://www.bloomingpedia.org/

:-)

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:41:01PM GMT, Josh Goodman [jogoodman@gmail.com] said the following:
> It was Condor. I used to use it to run some bioinformatics apps that
> had been deployed on it. I say was because as far as I understand it
> the cluster was end of lifed a year or so ago. The reason I was given
> was that when the windows firewall was rolled out to the student
> clusters they lost the ability to use Condor/SMBL messaging to manage
> jobs/nodes. The student desktop admins didn't want to open up ports
> or something along those lines.
>
> Maybe it is still alive in some other capacity but the public site
> that you used to access it through is no longer in service:
> https://condor.ussg.indiana.edu/ and all the apps that I used to use
> on it are available on AVIDD or Big Red.
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> On 10/12/07, Matt Standish <mstandish@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Doable and done. Matt Liggett, a former sysadmin at Kiva and the guy
> > > > who wrote the original knowledge base at IU, was working on a program
> > > > for IU that would slave the idle time of desktops into one giant super
> > > > computer. I'm not sure how far he got with it, but I've heard of other
> > > > places doing this before.
> > >
> > > Is that the OpenMosix project?
> > >
> > > As I understood it, it only worked with specific software. You couldn't,
> > > say, offload any old video encoding or (place random mundane
> > > high-processor-time task here) job yet.
> >
> > No it's not OpenMosix.. It may be condor (someone from my group will
> > chime in if I am wrong (At 1:30 I am sure I am wrong :) )) and it can
> > run video rendering. Sorta like Seti@home for clustering... I believe
> > it has been rewritten since Liggett was involved but the same purpose
> > exists.
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