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From: paw@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
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Subject: CONDOR (summary)
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Date: 20 May 91 13:35:23 GMT
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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