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FAQs about Pool Administration
How to add automatic job requirements
How to adjust the job's environment for the execute machine
How to allow some jobs to claim the whole machine instead of one slot
How to ban a machine from executing jobs
How to ban a user from submitting jobs
How to configure a user's fair share of the pool
How to configure backfill tasks such as BOINC
How to configure MPI on Windows
How to configure multi-tier collectors
How to configure priorities/quotas for groups of users
How to configure pseudo-interactive job monitoring/debugging
How to configure Condor on a worker node to run one job and then exit
How to disable fair sharing
How to disable preemption
How to have execute machines belong to multiple pools
How to insert custom ClassAd attributes into a job
How to insert custom ClassAd attributes into a machine ad
How to reserve a slot or machine for special jobs
How to limit disk usage of jobs
How to limit memory usage of jobs
How to manage a large Condor pool
How to monitor condor pool usage
How to scavenge cycles from PBS
How to set user priority factors automatically by domain or other username pattern
How to shut down Condor without killing jobs
How to steer jobs towards more desirable machines
How to suspend jobs in place of preemption
How to suspend jobs with an administative command
How to upgrade Condor gracefully
How to manage GPUs (OpenCL, CUDA)
How to debug complicated ClassAd expressions
How to schedule parallel universe jobs to use the minimum number of physical machines
How to enable IPv6 in the 7.7.x release series
How to run services in Condor
How to make Cloud or Glidein startds disappear from the collector faster.

FAQs about Job Submission

How to do remote IO for vanilla universe jobs
How to checkpoint vanilla universe jobs
How to write a condor_q wrapper
How to run a command on each machine within a pool
How to automate Excel calculations in Condor
Jobs for R: How to automate R jobs in Condor
How to run Matlab jobs
How to avoid sending jobs to Black Hole nodes
How to avoid jobs being restarted
How to run Hadoop MapReduce jobs with Condor
How to get USE_VISIBLE_DESKTOP to work on Vista/Win7
How to submit dagman itself as a condor-c job
A batch script that can run on any platform enables heterogeneous submission of jobs

This work is supported by NSF under Cooperative Agreement OAC-2030508 as part of the PATh Project. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. Site built using CVSTrac.