HTCondor and CamGrid Prerequisites
A hands-on course that introduces new users to CamGrid, the University's high throughput computational grid, which is based on the HTCondor 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).
- All current University members (departments and colleges)
- Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available
- 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
Number of sessions: 1
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
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1 | Tue 21 Oct 2014 09:30 - 13:00 | 09:30 - 13:00 | Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site | map | Mark Calleja |
- Why a High Throughput System?
- Differences between High Throughput and a High Performance Computing
- HTCondor's Universes
- Submitting Serial Jobs to HTCondor's Vanilla and Standard Universes
- Checkpointing Jobs
- DAGMan: HTCondor's Workflow Manager
- Federating HTCondor Pools: Flocking
To be able to submit serial jobs to the University's HTCondor based grid, CamGrid
Presentation and practicals
HTCondor version 8.0
- There will be a lecture followed by online exercises
One half day session
A number of times a year
Booking / availability