paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) (05/20/91)
Thanks to all who sent information on CONDOR (a U WISCONSIN project,
not a CMU one - sorry!).
Here's a (very brief) summary:
CONDOR is a system developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A reference to is is
M. Litzkow, M. Livny, and M. Mutka, "Condor--A Hunter of
Idle Workstations", 8th Int. Conf. on Distributed Computing
Systems, June, 1988.
>From the condor_intro man page:
Condor is a facility for executing UNIX jobs on a pool of
cooperating workstations. Jobs are queued and executed
remotely on workstations at times when those workstations
would otherwise be idle. A transparent checkpointing
mechanism is provided, and jobs migrate from workstation to
workstation without user intervention. When the jobs com-
plete, users are notified by mail.
You should be able to receive it by anonymous ftp
at "shorty.cs.wisc.edu" and login as ftp.
I also received pointers to Sprite (from Berkeley) and ISIS (Cornell).
Sprite is an operating system that includes process-migration. Contact
sprite-request@sprite.berkeley.edu for more information.
The ISIS System is "a toolkit for distributed and fault-tolerant programming",
currently running on Sun, DEC, Gould, AUX, and HP systems.
A version of ISIS is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.cornell.edu.
It's also been released commercially (with support and bug fixes) - contact
ids@isis.com for more information.
OSU is working along the same lines with their Stealth Distributed
Scheduler - check out the forthcoming paper in the 11th International
Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. I've been told that Stealth
probably won't be available any time soon.
Again, many thanks!
--
Pat Wilson
Systems Manager, Project NORTHSTAR
paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu