Condor/Installation

Windows

1. Download “Condor 6.6.8 for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0” from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads/v6.6.license.html
2. Provide the following information when you run the downloaded set-up file :
   • Name - < your name > and Company – NCSU [Note: This info does not affect the installation in any way]
   • select “join existing pool”
   • hostname of the machine that is your central manager – “condor.ece.ncsu.edu”
   • select both “submit jobs to condor pool” and “allow jobs from condor pool to run on this machine”
   • Destination folder can be folder to wherever you want Condor to be installed on your machine
   • No Condor Java Universe is used in our pool – so just click next when prompted about this
   • e-mail : rkvenkat@ncsu.edu & smtp : smtp.ncsu.edu
   • accounting domain of your machine : ecew2k.ncsu.edu
   • Read & Write access : *.ncsu.edu
   • For conditions to start a condor job on your machine, select “After 15 minutes of low console activity and low CPU activity”
   • then select “leave it in memory and restart when you leave”

Linux

(Need to have root access to install condor)

1. Create a user named “condor” (with normal user privileges). Note : Condor will run a job on an available machine under the username “condor”.
   • To add a user run “/usr/bin/redhat-config-users” (user-friendly GUI)
2. Download “Condor 6.6.5 - Linux 2.4.x (glibc 2.3) - Red Hat 9” from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads/v6.6.license.html
3. Unzip condor-6.6.5-linux-x86-glibc23-dynamic.tar.gz [ gunzip –c <filename> | tar xvf - ] in “/usr”
   • cd /usr/condor-6.6.5
   • Replace the existing “condor_configure” perl script by this modified perl script condor_configure
   • condor_configure --install --type = submit,execute --central-manager = zakkwylde.ecew2k.ncsu.edu –owner = condor
   • cd etc
   • Replace the condor_config file by this modified condor_config file [ condor_config ]
   • cd ../local.$(HOSTNAME) & modify/add the following if they do not exist already in the condor_config.local file :
     • NETWORK_INTERFACE = < your IP address >
       • To find out your machine’s IP address : host <full hostname> (e.g., host zakkwylde.ecew2k.ncsu.edu)
     • CONDOR_ADMIN = root@zakkwylde.ecew2k.ncsu.edu
     • CONDOR_HOST = zakkwylde.ecew2k.ncsu.edu
     • MAIL = /bin/mail
     • Comment out the following lines (add # at the beginning of the line)
       • FILESYSTEM_DOMAIN =
       • UID_DOMAIN =
       • SUSPEND =
       • START =
       • VACATE =
       • PREEMPT =
   • Set CONDOR_CONFIG environment variable to point to /usr/condor-6.6.5/etc/condor_config
     • tcsh – setenv CONDOR_CONFIG /usr/condor-6.6.5/etc/condor_config
     • bash – export CONDOR_CONFIG = /usr/condor-6.6.5/etc/condor_config
   • cd /usr/condor-6.6.5/sbin
   • ./condor_master
   • To ensure that Condor is running, type ps -ef | egrep condor_ , the following processes should be running
     • condor_ master
     • condor_ startd
     • condor_ schedd