Introduction to using HTCondor to run distributed compute Jobs and Workflows on Servers, Clusters, Grids, or Clouds
HTCondor (http://htcondor.org) is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks (jobs). It can be used to manage workloads on a single server, a cluster of computers, public cloud resources, or even national computing grids like the Open Science Grid (http://opensciencegrid.org/).
This workshop will introduce the concept of High Throughput Computing and how to submit large batches of jobs and also job workflows (job pipelines) to HTCondor, which will be of interest to end users. We will discuss the architecture of the system, and participants will create a unified compute cluster.