Contents
1 Overview
 1.1 High-Throughput Computing (HTC) and its Requirements
 1.2 HTCondor’s Power
 1.3 Exceptional Features
 1.4 Current Limitations
 1.5 Availability
 1.6 Contributions and Acknowledgments
 1.7 Contact Information
 1.8 Privacy Notice
2 Users’ Manual
 2.1 Welcome to HTCondor
 2.2 Introduction
 2.3 Matchmaking with ClassAds
 2.4 Running a Job: the Steps To Take
 2.5 Submitting a Job
 2.6 Managing a Job
 2.7 Priorities and Preemption
 2.8 Java Applications
 2.9 Parallel Applications (Including MPI Applications)
 2.10 DAGMan Applications
 2.11 Virtual Machine Applications
 2.12 Docker Universe Applications
 2.13 Time Scheduling for Job Execution
 2.14 Special Environment Considerations
 2.15 Potential Problems
3 Administrators’ Manual
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Installation, Start Up, Shut Down, and Reconfiguration
 3.3 Introduction to Configuration
 3.4 Configuration Templates
 3.5 Configuration Macros
 3.6 User Priorities and Negotiation
 3.7 Policy Configuration for Execute Hosts and for Submit Hosts
 3.8 Security
 3.9 Networking (includes sections on Port Usage and CCB)
 3.10 The Checkpoint Server
 3.11 DaemonCore
 3.12 Monitoring
 3.13 The High Availability of Daemons
 3.14 Setting Up for Special Environments
 3.15 Java Support Installation
 3.16 Setting Up the VM and Docker Universes
 3.17 Singularity Support
 3.18 Power Management
4 Miscellaneous Concepts
 4.1 HTCondor’s ClassAd Mechanism
 4.2 HTCondor’s Checkpoint Mechanism
 4.3 Computing On Demand (COD)
 4.4 Hooks
 4.5 Logging in HTCondor
5 Grid Computing
 5.1 Introduction
 5.2 Connecting HTCondor Pools with Flocking
 5.3 The Grid Universe
 5.4 The HTCondor Job Router
6 Cloud Computing
 6.1 Introduction
 6.2 HTCondor Annex User’s Guide
 6.3 Using condor_annex for the First Time
 6.4 HTCondor Annex Customization Guide
 6.5 HTCondor Annex Configuration
7 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
 7.1 Python Bindings
 7.2 Chirp
 7.3 The HTCondor User and Job Log Reader API
 7.4 The Command Line Interface
 7.5 The DRMAA API
8 Platform-Specific Information
 8.1 Linux
 8.2 Microsoft Windows
 8.3 Macintosh OS X
9 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
10 Contrib and Source Modules
 10.1 Introduction
 10.2 Using HTCondor with the Hadoop File System
 10.3 The HTCondorView Client Contrib Module
 10.4 Job Monitor/Log Viewer
11 Version History and Release Notes
 11.1 Introduction to HTCondor Versions
 11.2 Development Release Series 8.7
 11.3 Upgrading from the 8.4 series to the 8.6 series of HTCondor
 11.4 Stable Release Series 8.6
 11.5 Development Release Series 8.5
 11.6 Stable Release Series 8.4
12 Command Reference Manual (man pages)
 bosco_cluster
 bosco_findplatform
 bosco_install
 bosco_ssh_start
 bosco_start
 bosco_stop
 bosco_uninstall
 condor_advertise
 condor_annex
 condor_check_userlogs
 condor_checkpoint
 condor_chirp
 condor_cod
 condor_compile
 condor_config_val
 condor_configure
 condor_continue
 condor_convert_history
 condor_dagman
 condor_dagman_metrics_reporter
 condor_drain
 condor_fetchlog
 condor_findhost
 condor_gather_info
 condor_gpu_discovery
 condor_history
 condor_hold
 condor_install
 condor_job_router_info
 condor_master
 condor_now
 condor_off
 condor_on
 condor_ping
 condor_pool_job_report
 condor_power
 condor_preen
 condor_prio
 condor_procd
 condor_q
 condor_qedit
 condor_qsub
 condor_reconfig
 condor_release
 condor_reschedule
 condor_restart
 condor_rm
 condor_rmdir
 condor_router_history
 condor_router_q
 condor_router_rm
 condor_run
 condor_set_shutdown
 condor_ssh_to_job
 condor_sos
 condor_stats
 condor_status
 condor_store_cred
 condor_submit
 condor_submit_dag
 condor_suspend
 condor_tail
 condor_top
 condor_transfer_data
 condor_transform_ads
 condor_update_machine_ad
 condor_updates_stats
 condor_urlfetch
 condor_userlog
 condor_userprio
 condor_vacate
 condor_vacate_job
 condor_version
 condor_wait
 condor_who
 gidd_alloc
 procd_ctl
A ClassAd Attributes
 A.1 ClassAd Types
 A.2 Job ClassAd Attributes
 A.3 Machine ClassAd Attributes
 A.4 DaemonMaster ClassAd Attributes
 A.5 Scheduler ClassAd Attributes
 A.6 Negotiator ClassAd Attributes
 A.7 Submitter ClassAd Attributes
 A.8 Defrag ClassAd Attributes
 A.9 Collector ClassAd Attributes
 A.10 ClassAd Attributes Added by the condor_collector
 A.11 DaemonCore Statistics Attributes
B Codes and Other Needed Values
 B.1 condor_shadow Exit Codes
 B.2 Job Event Log Codes
 B.3 Well-known Port Numbers
 B.4 DaemonCore Command Numbers
 B.5 DaemonCore Daemon Exit Codes
Index