Re: [BLUG] NOV meeting topic

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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