Distributed computing in practice: the Condor experience: Research Articles

  • Authors:

  • Douglas Thain;Todd Tannenbaum;Miron Livny

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.;Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.;Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1210 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Grid Performance
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Since 1984, the Condor project has enabled ordinary users to do extraordinary computing. Today, the project continues to explore the social and technical problems of cooperative computing on scales ranging from the desktop to the world-wide computational Grid. In this paper, we provide the history and philosophy of the Condor project and describe how it has interacted with other projects and evolved along with the field of distributed computing. We outline the core components of the Condor system and describe how the technology of computing must correspond to social structures. Throughout, we reflect on the lessons of experience and chart the course travelled by research ideas as they grow into production systems. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.