Condor for Windows Installation Guide

Condor is already loaded on all of the STC machines, so you may wish to just skip to the "Configuring Condor" section. It also may be worthwhile to consider reviewing the Microsoft Windows Release Notes or Condor

Installing Condor

In Windows, either map a drive to or simply browse the files directory under \\condor.chem.indiana.edu\condor

In the "files\condor" directory, you will see an executable file named something similar to condor-6.7.0-winnt50-x86.exe. Double click on it and you will start an Installer. The installer will ask a series of questions, most of which are not important to us, since we will be overwriting the configuration file soon afterwards. Here is what you should fill in:

• Condor Pool Configuration: Select Joining an existing pool (Click Next)
• Central Manager: condor.chem.indiana.edu (Next)
• Machines Roles: Leave the defaults (Next)
• Destination Folder: Change to C:\Program Files\Condor. For us to read the logs later, it's important that you use this directory name. (Next)
• Java VM Location: Skip
• Condor Admin E-mail: Skip
• Domain: Leave the defaults (Next)
• Permissions: Skip
• Job Start: Next
• Job Vacate: Next

You may run into some weird looking grep error messages. Disregard them.

Configuring Condor

On the \\condor.chem.indiana.edu\condor share, there is also a folder named "files\config". Copy condor_config from that directory to C:\Program Files\Condor (overwriting the version the installer generated). This insures a uniform configuration between machines.

If you wish to override any configuration options, you can edit condor_config.local instead.

Creating a Job directory

We store the temporary files for our jobs in C:\Condor. This is to avoid long filename issues that some products, such as Gaussian, have. Please create this directory using Explorer or DOS.

Starting the Condor Service

You are now ready to start condor. You can either use the Windows Services Panel, or from "Run" on the Start Menu, type:

net start Condor

Checking the status

You can now check the status of the pool by visiting http://condor.chem.indiana.edu/ and clicking on the "Machines" tab.

You may also get it by running condor_status from the C:\program files\condor\bin directory. You should see your node name in the list, labeled as Unclaimed.

bl-chem-mma.c LINUX       INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   249  0+01:10:43
vm1@strongmad LINUX       x86_64 Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   498  0+01:25:04
vm2@strongmad LINUX       x86_64 Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   498  0+01:25:12
bl-chem-itgg5 OSX         PPC    Unclaimed  Idle       0.000  1024  0+01:39:45
stc-ch204-01. WINNT51     INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   512  0+00:30:24
stc-ch204-03. WINNT51     INTEL  Unclaimed  Idle       0.000   512  0+00:29:12