Is Boewulf what I need?

Erik Paulson epaulson at students.wisc.edu
Fri May 26 20:38:42 PDT 2000



On Fri, 19 May 2000, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> Condor is very clever at
> checkpoint/restart, but it can take a lot of hacking to port it to a
> particular system, and keep up with Linux kernel and libc releases. (The
> Condor guys support Linux pretty well, so I hear.)

Yes we do - we support both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels (We've not tested on the
2.4-test
kernels yet, but if the current version doesn't work under it the next
version certainly
will.) We also support libc5, glibc2 and glibc2.1, though we're planning on
dropping
libc5 after version 6.2. 

(Are there still a lot of libc5 sites out there? We don't see a ton of
downloads for it)

Most of our development is on Linux, and our pool has 249 (and growing)
Linux
machines, so it's certainly an important platform for us :)

-Erik
UW Madison, Condor Project




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