CONDOR

Condor: Open-Source High-Throughput Computing Framework

CONDOR is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for distributed computing, harnessing idle power from personal computers and servers to process data-intensive jobs.

What is CONDOR?

CONDOR is an open-source high-throughput computing software application framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks over computers of varied computational resources, including personal computers. It targets computations that consist of a large number of independent tasks, where the resource requirements of each task are relatively small compared to the available computing resources.

The CONDOR software was originally developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s to allow researchers to make use of idle desktop computers throughout the campus. Over the years, CONDOR's development has been driven by the needs of its user community and it is now used in many organizations to enable distributed high-throughput computing.

Some key features of CONDOR include job queueing mechanism, resource monitoring, resource management and scheduling policy components. These enable it to harness wasted CPU power from idle desktop workstations and dedicated clusters to create an aggregated computing resource. CONDOR provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. It allows the user to monitor and manage jobs and resources distributed across multiple platforms.

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