[gate-users] condor

Kris Thielemans kris.thielemans at csc.mrc.ac.uk
Thu Apr 28 17:31:44 CEST 2005


> 
> Although Condor is more than a queueing system, 
> it can be used as a queueing system. 
> It also balances the amount of CPU
> time assigned to each user, so all users get a fair
> share of the cluster. Sometimes, we also use some other 
> niceties, like when a job requires more than 2 Gb, it runs 
> alone in dual CPU nodes with, say 3 Gb of memory.
> 

Sure, but that's what a good queuing+scheduler does as well.

I'm not trying to say you shouldn't use Condor of course (I don't really
know it myself). Only that GATE users could use other queuing systems as
well.



More information about the Gate-users mailing list