Hi there :
I am new to Condor and I am planning
to make Condor as the new Renderfarm Manger on our studio. We use
3dsMax/Maya/Sofimage/AE/Fusion and other apps. Our studio is on Windows
environment and hence I have the following question :
·
Which would be the best OS to
run Condor Master..?
I'll always recommend Linux for the master and scheduler nodes if you can get away with it. Linux handles the large volume of processes and network connections Condor can create far better than Windows ever has.
There are some complications submitting from Linux schedulers to Windows execute hosts but they are not insurmountable and the end result is almost always a more stable pool.
·
Would like to use Python as the
scripting language – so which interface would be ideal to go with
SOAP/DRMAA..?
I'd start with the command line. You can pipe submission information in to the condor_submit binary:
import fcntl
import os
import subprocess
ticket = 'universe=vanilla\nexecutable=sleep\narguments=10m\n'
process = subprocess.Popen("condor_submit", stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
flags = fcntl.fcntl(process.stdout, fcntl.F_GETFL)
fcntl.fcntl(process.stdout, fcntl.F_SETFL, flags | os.O_NONBLOCK)
process.stdin.write(ticket)
And so on...
Lastly a link to a good documentation
for the best practices of implementing Condor .?
The manual, while a bit of a beast, is The Tome of Knowledge for Condor.
You can find some specific tips and tricks for working with Condor on Cycle's blog as well:
Regards,
- Ian
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