Re: [HTCondor-users] HTCondor and COVID-19

[Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@xxxxxxx>]

aaaaah, I don't maintain any state and hope that setting the workload to 
5% of a day (horrible relative parametrization by BOINC...) does not 
become too wasteful ;)

On 27/03/2020 19.43, Bockelman, Brian wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> A long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, we did the same thing for Einstein@Home.  It wasn't as pleasant as it predated containers and we had to mangle the environment ourselves...
>
> I recall a lot of the difficulty was in saving the client's state / cached files and making it so it could restart from where it left off when it got preempted.  Then, HTCondor could simply reschedule the same job over-and-over.
>
> How do you approach maintaining state in your batch job example?
>
> Brian
>
> > On Mar 27, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Thomas Hartmann <thomas.hartmann@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we have been playing a bit wrapping the BOINC client into a Singularity container:
> >   https://confluence.desy.de/display/grid/BOINC+user+computing
> > A script creates hopefully reasonable configurations for desktop or batch job use cases and starts the BOINC client pulling Rosetta@home payloads.
> >
> > A lot of things are hard coded, ugly and very alpha, so your millage may vary and there might be dragons...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   Thomas
> >
> > On 27/03/2020 04.11, Craig Parker wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > Just an idle shower thought here after thinking about the folding@home success with picking up extra CPU cycles around the world for COVID-19 research.  Is there any way to utilise or donate our Condor grids for this kind of public benefit?
> > > Hope everyone is well and staying safe :)
> > > Cheers, Craig
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