{section: Lark}

{subsection: Introduction}
Lark is a NSF-funded project for adding network-awareness to Condor's High Throughput Computing approach.

Broadly, it can be split into three major areas:
*: Advanced Network Testbed: A small testbed for Condor networking technologies.  Consists of dedicated Condor pools at Wisconsin and Nebraska.  This will serve as a "launch point" for Lark technologies onto the production clusters at the sites.
*: Network Monitoring: Integrating existing network monitoring tools (particularly, perfSONAR) into the Condor ecosystem.  This will provide various Condor daemons with the ability to make decisions based on the observed network state.
*: Network Management: Have Condor actively alter the network layer based on its internal policies.

Lark started on October 1 and will last for approximately two years.  More information will be added to this wiki page as the project progresses.

{subsection: Development  Documentation}
*: {wiki: NetworkRelatedPolicy Network Related Policy for Condor}