Re: [Condor-users] Using Condor as a substitute for OpenPBS

["David McGiven" <david.mcgiven@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Angel,

That's what I was looking for. Thank you very much!

Regards,
David

----- Original Message -----

> Hi,
>
> despite being a fan of Condor (and administering a 200 machines pool), I
would
> not recommend it as a substitute of OpenPBS for a cluster. I think you
would be
> better off trying Torque
> (http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/torque-resource-manager.php),
> and if you have more demanding scheduling needs then add Maui
> (http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/maui-cluster-scheduler.php)
on
> top of it. Besides other things, the change from OpenPBS to Torque will be
> painless.
>
> Cheers,
> Angel de Vicente
>
>
> David McGiven writes:
>  > Dear Condor Users,
>  >
>  > I'm actually using OpenPBS. Since that project has been unmaintained for
>  > some years now, I would like to switch to a free one but under active
>  > development.
>  >
>  > I would like to know if I can use Condor like I use PBS :
>  >
>  > - There's a single que, in which all jobs submitted by the different
users
>  > go into. The PBS allocates free nodes for those jobs, and starts running
>  > them.
>  >
>  > When there are no more free nodes, the jobs keep on entering on the que,
>  > but have to wait till there are free nodes, of course.
>  >
>  > - The jobs we submit are 99% of these two types : Amber
>  > (http://amber.scripps.edu) and Gaussian (http://www.guassian.com)
>  >
>  > Amber jobs : They are executed with the mpirun wrapper.
>  >
>  > Gaussian jobs : They are executed like if it was a serial command,
but it
>  > allocates any number of nodes specified. It uses the LINDA parallel
>  > libraries.
>  >
>  > I don't want anyother functionalities of Condor like checkpointing,
>  > scheduling priorities, idle cycling harvest, and so on ... I just
want the
>  > plain queue with a FIFO order.
>  >
>  > Also, I don't want to apply any kernel patches, nor linking any external
>  > libraries to my applications.
>  >
>  > Is it possible to replace OpenPBS with Condor and have the same
>  > functionality ?
>  >
>  > Thanks in advance.
>  >
>  > David McGiven
>  > CTO
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