> Hi Ivo, > > Ivo Grosse wrote: > In a corporate environment you have the money to purchase a cluster and > users who need their computers to be secure and predictable during day > to day operation. A cluster is a small amount of money compared to, > potentially, screwing up the operation of your business. With all that > said a system like Condor, thank you Jeremy, may address most of these > technical issues, and could be a good approach. The accounting > department probably won't want jobs running on their systems > regardless, and rightly so. There is more control over the Condor system to that you can specify if a computer hits this load number, or the keyboard and/or mouse is in use, or this much free memory left, etc.... it will simply move onto the next computer. But yes, you are right, I wouldn't install it in an environment like that. > If you have two classes of users who do and do not mind having this > done to their systems, great. If you have a computer lab for students > which has bursty small cpu footprint usage (type 1), this would be a > good place for your system. I would love to know how it splits up in > the academic universe. If you are in a university setting like myself, the computers that we use and operate belong to our department. I would never consider installing Condor in another department, simply for the fact that I would have no control over them and its on a totally different network. -- Jeremy Mann jeremy@biochem.uthscsa.edu