-To backfill Folding@Home on your execute node that is using static slots, use the following config +{subsubsection: Audience} +If you have a HTCondor pool that is *not* configured to use Partitionable slots and you wish to run Folding@home as backfill jobs on those slots. +{subsubsection: Strategy} +We will use HTCondor's "fetch work" configuration to run a script on each execute machine that periodically generates a job classad for Folding@Home work. Those jobs will have a retirement time of 0 so that they can be pre-empted by jobs sent from a Schedd. These jobs will all be run by a dedicated user named *backfill*, and the Startd will give negative RANK jobs from the *backfill* user. + + +The configuration fragment below can be customized by modifying =FAH_Owner=, =FAH_HOME= and =FAH_Executable= configuration variables near the top of the file. {snip: backfill_folding_at_home.config} # The local user to run FAH jobs as, you must create this user #