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From: jbasney@cs.wisc.edu
Reply-To: condor-admin@cs.wisc.edu
Subject: Condor 6.0 - Hunter of Idle Workstations
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Date: 18 May 1998 16:00:17 -0500
Message-ID: <uyavz8fby.fsf@CEDAR.i-have-a-misconfigured-system-so-shoot-me>

Condor 6.0 is now available at 
	http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

Condor is a software system that runs on a cluster of workstations to
harness wasted CPU cycles.  The system detects when a workstation is
idle, as defined by the owner of the workstation, and runs a batch job
on that workstation.  Users may submit many batch jobs at once, and
Condor finds idle machines for these jobs as they become available.
While Condor can run any Unix executable or script as a batch job,
executables linked with a provided library benefit from checkpoint and
remote system call services.  Condor will checkpoint an application
linked with the library when a workstation is reclaimed by the user
and restart the application when a new idle workstation becomes
available.  Remote system calls are used to access files on a remote
workstation when a network filesystem is not available.

The following platforms are currently supported:
	Sun SPARC Sun4m,c, Sun UltraSPARC Solaris 2.5.x, 2.6
	SGI MIPS (R4400, R4600, R8000, R10000) IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
	Digital ALPHA OSF/1 (Digital Unix) 4.x
	Intel x86, Pentium series Linux 2.x
	Intel x86, Pentium series Solaris 2.5.x, 2.6

The Condor group is able to provide a guaranteed level of support for
a fee.  Contact condor-support@cs.wisc.edu for more details.  The
developers continue to provide free support (as time permits) at
condor-admin@cs.wisc.edu.

New features for version 6.0 include:
  - Automated installation program
  - Complete 180+ page manual
  - Redesigned administrator commands
  - Condor acts as PVM resource manager for PVM jobs
  - Flexible host-based access control
  - Root access not required for installation
  - Redesigned priority mechanism
  - Enhanced description language for workstation offers and requests
  - Jobs may rank available workstations
  - Workstation owners may rank jobs and users
  - Faster job starts
  - Enhanced user tools
  - .Xauthority support for detecting keyboard activity