Download Condor 7.2.0

The Condor Team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has released a new version in the stable branch of their workload management system Condor. The version number has arrived at 7.2.0 and is placed under the Apache 2.0 License issued. Condor focuses on managing compute-intensive tasks and can distribute them over several connected nodes. The user sends his task to Condor, after which it handles the entire process based on set policies and the availability of the connected resources, and finally sends the results back to the user. For example, it can control a dedicated Beowulf cluster to calculate the tasks, but it can also include standard desktops that are normally used for users when they have nothing to do for a while. When the user returns to their desktop, the current task is automatically transferred to another free node. The announcement of Condor 7.2.0 looks like this:

Condor 7.2.0 released!

The Condor Team is pleased to announce the first release of our new stable series, 7.2.0. This new stable release contains all of the new features introduced in the 7.1.X development series but has been tested much more thoroughly in more configurations and has been subjected to both runtime and static analysis tools, resulting in numerous bug fixes.

The 7.2.0 binaries and source code can be found on our Downloads page:

Notable new features compared to the previous stable series (7.0.X) include Work Fetching using job hooks, DAG Splicing, the JobRouter, support for running on Amazon EC2 resources, Concurrency Limits for managing software licenses, WS GRAM support in Globus, and preliminary support for Green Computing and Dynamic Startd Provisioning.

Additionally, more scalability improvements were made, better error propagation and debugging output have been added, and the support for the VMware VM job universe is much improved.

We believe 7.2.0 is wire-compatible with all 7.0.X releases, meaning that you can mix versions of Condor within a single pool (although not within a single computer). However, we do not test this regularly and recommend using the same series when possible.

Since this is a stable series, only bug fixes and ports to new platforms will be added in 7.2.X. All new features and functionality will go into the soon-to-be-released 7.3.X development series.

Thank you for your interest in Condor. As always, if you have any problems with the downloading, installation, or use of Condor, please contact us for help.

The Condor Team