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1.5 Availability

Condor is currently available as a free download from the Internet via the World Wide Web at URL http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2. Binary distributions of Condor are available for the platforms detailed in Table 1.1. A platform is an architecture/operating system combination. Condor binaries are available for most major versions of Unix, as well as Windows.

In the table, clipped means that Condor does not support checkpointing or remote system calls on the given platform. This means that standard jobs are not supported, only vanilla jobs. See section 2.4.1 on page [*] for more details on job universes within Condor and their abilities and limitations.

For 7.0.0 and later releases, the Condor source code is available for public download alongside the binary distributions.


Table 1.1: Condor Version 7.2.4 supported platforms
Architecture Operating System
Hewlett Packard PA-RISC (both PA7000 and PA8000 series) - HPUX 11.00 (clipped)
Sun SPARC Sun4m, Sun4c, Sun UltraSPARC - Solaris 8, 9 (clipped)
  - Solaris 10 (clipped) (Using the Solaris 9 binaries)
Intel x86 - Red Hat Linux 9
  - RedHat Enterprise Linux 3
  - RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (Using RHEL3 binaries)
  - RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
  - Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Using RHEL3 binaries)
  - Debian Linux 3.1 (sarge) (Using RHEL3 binaries)
  - Debian Linux 4.0 (etch)
  - Debian Linux 5.0 (lenny)
  - Windows 2000 Professional and Server (Win NT 5.0) (clipped)
  - Windows 2003 Server (Win NT 5.2) (clipped)
  - Windows 2008 Server (Win NT 6.0) (clipped)
  - Windows XP Professional (Win NT 5.1) (clipped)
  - Windows Vista (Win NT 6.0) (clipped)
  - Macintosh OS X 10.4 (clipped)
PowerPC - Macintosh OS X 10.4 (clipped)
  - AIX 5.2, 5.3 (clipped)
  - Yellowdog Linux 5.0 (clipped)
  - SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (clipped)
Itanium IA64 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (clipped)
Opteron x86_64 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  - Debian Linux 5.0 (lenny)


NOTE: Other Linux distributions likely work, but are not tested or supported.

Condor is also available, but is not currently distributed as tested binaries for the platforms shown in Table 1.2.


Table 1.2: Other Condor Version 7.2.4 available platforms
Platform Notes
FreeBSD 6, 7 (clipped) on Intel x86 Known to compile
FreeBSD 7 (clipped) on Itanium IA64 Known to compile


For more platform-specific information about Condor's support for various operating systems, see Chapter 6 on page [*].

Jobs submitted to the standard universe utilize condor_compile to relink programs with libraries provided by Condor. Table 1.3 lists supported compilers by platform. Other compilers may work, but are not supported.


Table 1.3: Supported compilers under Condor Version 7.2.4
Platform Compiler Notes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 on x86 gcc, g++, and g77 as shipped
Red Hat Debian Linux 3.1 (sarge) on x86 gcc up to version 3.4.1  
Red Hat Debian Linux 5.0 (lenny) on x86 and x86_64 gcc, g++, gfortran as shipped  
Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 on x86 gcc, g++, and g77 as shipped


The following table, Table 1.4, identifies which platforms support the transfer of large files (greater than 2 Gbyte in length). For vanilla universe jobs and those platforms where large file transfer is supported, the support is automatic.


Table 1.4: Supported platforms for large file transfer of vanilla universe job files
Platform Large File Transfer Supported?
Hewlett Packard PA-RISC with HPUX 11.00 Yes
Sun SPARC Sun4m,Sun4c, Sun UltraSPARC with Solaris 8, 9 Yes
Intel x86 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, Debian Linux 3.1, 4.0, 5.0 Yes
Intel x86 with Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Yes
Intel x86 with Windows 2000 Professional and Server Yes
Intel x86 with 2003 Server (Win NT 5.0) Yes
Intel x86 with Windows XP Professional (Win NT 5.1) Yes
Intel x86 with Windows Vista Yes
PowerPC with Macintosh OS X No
PowerPC with AIX 5.2 Yes
PowerPC with Yellowdog Linux 5.0 Yes
Itanium with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Yes
Opteron x86_64 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, Debian Linux 5.0 Yes



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