Condor tutorial for
The 3rd International Summer School on Grid Computing 2005

Welcome to the Condor Exercises! We hope you enjoy these exercises. These online exercises provides you with enough information to go through the exercises at your own pace. Your exercise leader, Alain Roy, is available to help you out and answer any questions that you have.

This tutorial is divided into several sections:

  1. Introduction
  2. Installing a personal Condor
  3. Submitting your first Condor job
  4. Submitting a standard universe job
  5. Submitting a Java job
  6. Coordinating set of jobs: A simple DAG
  7. A more complex DAG
  8. Handling jobs that fail with DAGMan
  9. Finishing up the condor portion
  10. Condor challenges
  11. Catch up
  12. Master Worker (if you have time and C++ experience)

Morning Lecture

Alain's morning lecture (Powerpoint) (PDF)