Re: [HTCondor-users] Benefits of Condor over PBS

[Steve Koch <stevekochscience@xxxxxxxxx>]

There was a thread in early December that had some information I found useful as someone unfamiliar with HTCondor. Here is a particularly useful response from Gary Jackson, specific to dedicated clusters (as you have):

https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/htcondor-users/2014-December/msg00027.shtml

He points out that if your jobs are typically tightly-coupled parallel jobs, then PBS may be better. Whereas if your jobs are mostly "embarrassingly parallel" or high-throughput jobs, then HTCondor may be superior.Â

Of particular interest to you, he also said: "There's no reason you can't use both HTCondor and a purpose-builtÂparallel batch scheduler at the same time." So, it's not trivial, but you don't have to eliminate PBS to try out HTCondor.

Here is a link to the whole thread (I think):Âhttps://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/htcondor-users/2014-December/msg00021.shtml

--Steve

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Raman Sehgal <sc.ramansehgal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello all,

We are using PBS on our cluster, and would like to switch to Condor.

But before that i am trying to understanding in what way condor is better then pbs.

If anybody has experience in this the please let me know, or if somebody can

point out to some documentation which explain this, it will be great.

Thanks in advance,
Raman

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