HTCondor: High Throughput Computing
copied from cf-staging / htcondor-cliHTCondor is a workload management system for high-throughput and high-performance jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, HTCondor provides a job queuing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to HTCondor, HTCondor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.