IBM Israel Research Seminars

Condor (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/Condor) is a widely deployed distributed resource and job management system. Over the last decade, Condor gained the confidence of users and system administrators in both academia and industry. Deployed at more than 1500 sites and integrated into the software stacks of most grid projects, Condor offers an effective bridge between consumers and providers of computing resources. The system is based on a separation between resource allocation and work delegation mechanisms and employs a novel “matchmaking” framework to express and implement scheduling policies. Through the mobility of the Condor services, an arbitrary collection of grid resources can be transformed "on the fly" into a familiar computing environment. We will present the principals that have been guiding us in the design of these aspects of Condor and will describe how they are implemented in the current version of the system. Our plans for short and long term enhancements to Condor and related technologies will be outlined.