Grid computing, the ability for communities to share resources, has emerged as an important facet of computing. Condor-G is the marriage of technologies from the Condor project and the Globus project.
The Condor-G system leverages recent advances in two distinct areas: (1) security and resource access in multi-domain environments, as supported within the Globus Toolkit, and (2) management of computation and harnessing of resources within a single administrative domain, embodied within the Condor system. Condor-G combines the inter-domain resource management protocols of the Globus Toolkit and the intra-domain resource and job management methods of Condor to allow the user to harness multi-domain resources as if they all belong to one personal domain.
Condor-G provides the grid computing community with a powerful, full-featured
task broker. Used as a front-end to a computational grid, Condor-G can manage
thousands of jobs destined to run at distributed sites. It provides job monitoring,
logging, notification, policy enforcement, fault tolerance, credential management,
and it can handle complex
job-interdependencies. Condor-G's flexible and intuitive commands are appropriate
for use directly by end-users, or for interfacing with higher-level task brokers
and web portals.
For more information, see:
For a helpful chart of the specific RSL attributes supported by Globus
for a variety of target batch schedulers, this page may be
helpful.