[Condor-users] Condor as an alternative for Boinc for a game

["Erwin Ried" <erwinried@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

 

I have been using and playing with a lot of vm scenaries with Condor for this last month, and I really need a little help in my learning.

I want to serve a "Biological" online videogame that requires the processing of certains actions, for instance, scripts like:

 

START GEN=1
TIME 10S GEN++

 

So in this simple example, the user should see how every 10 seconds a new gen is generated. (The example is not real, the simulations aren't that simple)

The beauty of this system is that almost any user isn't processing his "game scenario" (gens, etc).

 

Questions are:

 

1) I managed to get a condor install for windows in less than 11 MB (I think can be less than that), but I don't really understand why condor does not start jobs behind a NAT configuration. Can I redirect everything that condor needs by the port 80?

 

2) Task are a bit lenght (the should run receiving modifications to the simulation for more than 6-12 hours), but every task has a lot of idle times. Can I run multiple jobs in just one cpu without dealing with cpu cores/dynamic slots?

 

Thanks!