Re: [HTCondor-users] Condor + Xeon PHI

[Lans Carstensen <lans.carstensen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Tiago Macarios <tiagomacarios@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Have anyone here tried using Condor and Xeon Phi Coprocessor? Would it work?

Short answer is "yes".

The slightly longer answer is that they have completely different
roles from each other, and will require integration.  Just like GPU's
or any other specialty compute hardware - you model and expose the
host resources as metadata for your scheduler to utilize and reserve
special slots around.  The support for utilizing the specific hardware
has to be written into job wrappers and applications, and infers a
workflow and specific integration/configuration that you'll have to
develop.  You probably want to start with the GPU wiki page:

https://condor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/wiki?p=HowToManageGpus

-- Lans Carstensen