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| 1.1 Preliminaries |
| 1.2 Which Condor? |
| 1.3 The Exercises |
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Preliminaries
You might want to refer to the
online Condor manual.
You may enjoy browsing the
Condor web page
1.2 Which Condor?
You are going to do the exercises in two parts. In the first part, you will install Condor and configure it. This will be a personal Condor--it will only run on your own computer. With this version of Condor, you will run a few jobs to make sure it works. In the second part, we will switch to a pre-installed version of Condor that will allow us to use all of the computers at the summer school as a single Condor pool. You will need to be careful to know which version of Condor you are using. While this is potentially confusing, it gives us the chance to teach you how to install Condor, and the chance to use a real Condor pool.
We will be using Condor 6.7.19, which is a recently released development version of Condor.
Condor has two coexisting types of releases at any given time: stable and development. Condor 6.6.x and 6.8.x are considered stable releases, and you can know they are stable because the second digit (a 6) is an even number. In a given stable series, all versions have the same features (that is, 6.6.0 and 6.6.10 have the same set of features) and differ only in bug fixes.
Condor 6.7.19 is the latest development release of Condor. You know it's a development release because the second digit (a 7) is an odd number. Development releases add new features and are more likely to have serious bugs. This is the nineteenth (!) release in the development series. Although development releases are typically rougher than stable releases, 6.7.19 is quite late in the 6.8.0 series and is quite stable. With luck, 6.8.0 should be released by the time the summer school happens, but 6.7.19 was the most recent release as of the time we set up the school.
1.3 The Exercises
Throughout the Condor exercises, you will be given a fair amount of guidance. In several spots, there are suggestions for "extra credit". Since you aren't being graded, there is no extra credit, but we encourage you to try them out. If you prefer, you can come back to the extra credit after you've completed the basic exercises.
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