[Condor-users] "Condor" name changing to "HTCondor"

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In order to resolve a lawsuit challenging the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison's use of the "Condor" trademark, the University has 
agreed to begin referring to its Condor software as "HTCondor". Starting 
in the end of October and through November of this year, you will begin 
to see this change reflected on our web site, documentation, web URLs, 
email lists, and wiki.  We will keep the community updated as these 
changes take place.

* Will this change how the software is used?

No. While the name of the software is changing, nothing about the naming 
or usage of the command-line tools, APIs, environment variables, or 
source code will change.  For example, to submit a job, users will still 
run "condor_submit", and the environment variable to point to the 
configuration file is still called CONDOR_CONFIG.  Portals, scripts, 
gateways, and other code built on top of the Condor software should not 
have to change at all when HTCondor is installed.

* Why the name HTCondor ?

The letters at the start of the new name ("HT") derive from the 
software's primary objective: to enable high throughput computing, often 
abbreviated as HTC.