Re: [Condor-users] Does CONDOR help on a Non-parallel code?

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alankar Alankar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I run ABAQUS on my PC (1.77 GHz Pentium 4). I heard about CONDOR and 
> installed on my PC and will add 4 more similar computers to make a pool 
> of 5. Could somebody tell me if it will help me in decreasing the run 
> time of ABAQUS simulations provided that my ABAQUS simulations are 
> non-parallel codes ?

No, that's not how it works. Runtime of single simulation will actually 
increase slightly due to overhead. However, you can run 5 simulations at 
once (provided your simulations are separate program runs) and get 5x 
speedup for a batch of them.

Dima