HTCondor and CamGrid Prerequisites
Tue 20 May 2014
Description
A hands-on course that introduces new users to CamGrid, the University's high throughput computational grid, which is based on the Condor middleware.
CamGrid allows participating groups and departments to share spare CPU cycles, and currently possesses in excess of 1,000 cores (all linux). It is especially useful for those with large numbers of independent serial jobs (though some groups also use it for parallel/MPI jobs).
Prerequisites
- Knowledge of Linux equivalent to Unix: Introduction to the Command Line Interface
- Experience of using a Linux based text editor e.g. Vi, Emacs or Pico
Sessions
Number of sessions: 1
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 20 May 2014 09:30 - 13:00 | 09:30 - 13:00 | University Information Services, Roger Needham Building, Ely Training Room 1 | map | Mark Calleja |
Topics covered
- Why a High Throughput System?
- Differences between High Throughput and a High Performance Computing
- Condor's Universes
- Submitting Serial Jobs to Condor's Vanilla and Standard Universes
- Checkpointing Jobs
- DAGMan: Condor's Workflow Manager
- Federating Condor Pools: Flocking
Aims
To be able to submit serial jobs to the University's Condor based grid, CamGrid
Format
Presentation and practicals
Taught using
Condor version 7.8 or 8.0
Notes
- There will be a lecture followed by online exercises
Duration
One half day session
Frequency
A number of times a year
Theme
Scientific Computing
Booking / availability