Re: [Condor-users] Multi Submitter Machine

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/19/2011 03:19 PM, Ben Cotton wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Sassy Natan<sassyn@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Hi Condor Group,
> > I was wonder if anyone can tell me how condor works when having more then
> > one submit machine?
>
> The short answer is "like it normally does, but moreso." The long
> answer is that each schedd will contact the negotiator to beg for a
> startd. We run multiple submit machines in most of our pools without
> any problem. The one caveat is that if you do DNS round-robining or
> similar, users might be confused when they run condor_q on a machine
> that isn't the one they submitted from.

I'll add that the ability to run multiple schedds is a scaling/balancing 
feature of the architecture. You can put multiple submit machines in a 
pool or have multiple schedds on a single machine.

Best,


matt