Condor @ IU Chemistry

Welcome!

Welcome to the IU Chemistry Condor Initiative. Our purpose is to take the untapped CPU cycles from our workstations, and pool them together to solve complex scientific calculations using Condor as our Grid Computing solution.

Initially our work is dedicated to distributing sessions of Gaussian, a molecular systems analyzer. We are in the progress of distributing our Gaussian calculations to the STC Windows workstations during off-hours. Once we have completed our pilot project, we will use this technology with other machines and software products within the building.

Status (20oct2004)

Condor is up and running on 89 machines running Windows XP, representing 47GFlops of power. Our web interface at http://condor.chem.indiana.edu/ has recently been upgraded to EasyCondor 0.9.9

User Documents

• Submitting jobs to Condor using the EasyCondor web interface
• Submitting jobs to Condor using the command-line
• How to abort a Condor Job?
• Condor Job Guidelines
• Accessing your Condor job data
• Condor for UNIX Installation Guide
• Condor for Windows Installation Guide
• Condor Troubleshooting

References

• Gaussian
• Condor
• IU Physics Department's Atlas Grid