HTCondor Tutorials

Video Tutorials

Videos of a number of HTCondor presentations and tutorials from past HTCondor weeks are available here.

Tutorials

• Pegasus/DAGMan Tutorial to be presented at CCGrid 2008, May, 2008
• Pegasus/DAGMan Tutorial, presented at the LSU Mardi Gras Conference 2008, February, 2008
• HTC Week 2007 Tutorial
• Pegasus/DAGMan Tutorial, presented at TeraGrid '07, June 2007
• "A Day of Condor Tutorials for Scientists", presented July 2006 at Universitat Automoma de Barcelona
• Hands-on Condor tutorial for the 3rd International Summeer School on Grid Computing 2005, July 2005
• Hands-on Condor user tutorial for Fermilab, January 2005
• Hands-on Condor user tutorial for Tel-Aviv University, December 2004
  
  
• Professional Development Seminar for the Boulder Chapter of the ACM, October 16, 2004, Boulder, CO.
  
  
• The 2nd International Summer School on Grid Computing 2004, 2004-07-18 - 2004-07-30, Naples, Italy. Slides and hands-on tutorial covering DAGMan, Condor-G, and Stork.
  • Slides (PowerPoint, 1.1 MB), (PDF, 2.1 MB)
  • Hands-on tutorial (HTML, 139 KB) Important note: the DAGMan/Stork interface specification has subsequently changed. Learn more about Using Stork with DAGMan.

  
  
• Condor Administrator's Tutorial, 2003-10-23, Edinburgh, Scotland - A four hour tutorial covering installation, configuration, debugging, and administration of Condor.

  • Lecture Notes (HTML) - Formatted as single web page suitable for printing. Includes all text and images from the slides.

  • Hands On Workbook (HTML) - Covers installations, configuration, and debugging.

  • Slides (PowerPoint, 1MB)

• Condor User Tutorial, 2003-10-20, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Slides (PowerPoint, 1.5MB)

  • Workbook (HTML)

• Condor-G and DAGMan: An Introduction, 2003-07, Italy - Slides and hands-on tutorial from July 2003.

  • Slides (Powerpoint, 500kB)

  • Hands On Tutorial (HTML, 110kB)

• Grid Computing with Condor, 2002-07-21, Edinburgh, Scotland (PowerPoint, 2.2MB)

  A four-hour tutorial given at the Fifth Global Grid Forum.

  The Grid is an untapped resource. Vast amounts of computing power and storage are available. But, without sophisticated middleware and end-user software, the Grid will sit idle. The Condor Project aims to empower individual users with the software to harness the Grid. At the University of Wisconsin, the Condor distributed batch system has provided computing cycles since 1985. To extend this expertise to the Grid, the Condor Project is developing a variety of tools that discover, claim, manage and use large numbers of Grid resources.

  In this tutorial, we offer practical instruction in real Grid computing. We will begin with the Condor distributed batch system, which creates a high-throughput computing facility from commodity desktop and cluster machines. We will also discuss a variety of other Grid technologies being developed by the Condor Project. These include the Condor-G job submission system, the DAGMan persistent dependency manager, the NeST grid storage appliance, and the PFS transparent I/O agent. Throughout, we will show how the Condor software interacts with existing systems and standards. we will chart a larger design for grid computing.

  We will show how to construct a variety of larger computing structures, such as personal grids, I/O communities, and data-driven job managers. Examples will be small practical systems built from standard tools that may be downloaded and used after the tutorial.

• Condor Tutorial, 2001-07, Lecce, Italy (HTML) (PowerPoint2000, 2MB)

  This talk was presented as a 2-hour introductory tutorial on Condor at the First EuroGlobus Workshop in Lecce, Italy on June 2001.

  In addition to introducing Condor, it explains several of Condor's mechanisms for working in a Grid-based computing environment. Condor-G is also presented.

• DoD Users Group Conference 2000 for users of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, June 5th, 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• Ohio Supercomputing Center (OSC), October 26th and 27th, 1999, Columbus, OH

• NCSA "Chautauqua", September 16th, 1999, Boston, MA.

• INFN User's Tutorial June 29th, 1999, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Bologna, Italy

• INFN Administrator's Tutorial June 28th, 1999, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (National Institute for Nuclear Physics), Bologna, Italy

• Tutorial from Alliance 98 April 27th, 1998, NCSA Alliance '98, Champaign-Urbana, IL