Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor heroes

[Miha Ahronovitz <myinnervoice@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ian, you are right. You quoted this message:
from Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:24:20 -0800 (PST)

Hi,

It took me a lot of effort to convince the university library IT admins and then install Condor on the 400+ public library PCs.
I thought Condor might be a great service to the university community, to offer otherwise wasted computational resources.
I now have Condor running on almost 400 WIndows PCs (dual core), with on average 4000 CPU hours idle time per day!


I have given seminars and instructional talks to researchers and students, how to use the condor commands for submitting jobs etc.

At the end they ask me where is theÂ"click-with-the-mouse" application to use Condor......

So from my perspective, if something like Condor wants to reach out to a modern research community, an interface or web-portal is necessary.

Are there any plans in that direction?

Rob.

You pointed Rob to

my DropAndCompute interface <http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=3339>.

Todd mentioned that a team in HTCondor works to such an interface.  Will it solve the challenge that Rob had initially? It would be nice to know.

Miha

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On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Ian Cottam <Ian.Cottam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think the quote below is from me. Maybe I replied and quoted it.Â

The different GUI per application is a common request here too.Â

My heroes blog series does not imply any order of merit. It's just the order I wrote them in.Â

-Ian

On 30 Sep 2013, at 21:17, "Miha Ahronovitz" <myinnervoice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ian, on 02/27/2013, seven month ago, you wrote

So from my perspective, if something like Condor wants to reach out to a modern research community, an interface or web-portal is necessary. Are there any plans in that direction?

Personally, I think you have a great point. We tried to implement something similar in Bosco, which is in essence a simpler to use Condor for 80% of Joe user cases. Derek Weitzel even did a prototype native Mac Install for Bosco Âhttp://derekweitzel.blogspot.com/2013/07/creating-native-mac-installer-for-bosco.htmlÂ. Â

What we discovered was that different use cases (for example R stats package users) want different GUI.

You did a lot of work on Condor Web Portals. What are your thoughts today? Looking atÂ<http://www.software.ac.uk/heroes-software-engineering> I see HTCondor and Miron Livny Âranked #5, so what is we must do to move up ?

:-)

Miha

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On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 9/30/2013 8:19 AM, Ian Cottam wrote:

[Mainly for the HTCondor development team - but others may be interested.]

Hi Ian,

Thank you so much for the blog kudos! ÂVery appreciated.

best regards,
Todd

p.s. I forwarded the URL to your DropAndCompute Dropbox-style submit interface into HTCondor to several folks here at UW-Madison...

In my spare time, I do a blog series for the Software Sustainability
Institute. It is called "Heroes of software engineering", and my heroes of
today's blog are the HTCondor developers.

<http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2013-09-30-heroes-software-engineering-miro
n-livny-and-htcondor>

Previous blog posts in the series are here
<http://www.software.ac.uk/heroes-software-engineering>


Kind regards
-Ian

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