This document provides instructions for installing Condor, a workload management system, on a Windows laptop. It describes downloading the Condor msi installer from the Condor home page, running the installer, accepting the license, and configuring Condor for a local, personal installation that starts jobs immediately. The document demonstrates running Condor and submitting a sample CPU-intensive C program to test that Condor is functioning properly. The output log file shows the jobs being executed on the local host by Condor daemons.

1. How to Install a Personal
Condor on Your Windows
Laptop
Guy Tel-Zur
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2. Download Condor
• Condor home page:
– http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor
• Download link:
– http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-
v2/download.pl
• For Windows I recommend the msi installer

3. Start the Installer
In these slides: Version 7.4.2. Released on April 6, 2010 is demonstrated

4. Accept the license

5. We want a local, personal,
installation

6. I want my jobs to start immediately

7. Leave the domain blank

8. You can leave these blank as well

9. Condor automatically detects
your Java installation

10. Don’t worry too much about this, we will
see how to correct/edit things later

11. Here, we install only the good
old “Classic” features, no VM

12. …and no Hadoop support

13. Cont’
Click on Install

14. Click on Install
(needs administrator’s privileges)

15. Wait until this step will finish

17. You will have to restart
your system
restart

18. The Condor service should be started
If needed restart the service here

19. Check the Tasks Manager
for the Condor daemons

20. Edit/Correct the condor_config file:
the host is set to localhost

21. Set the right Network Interface in
the condor_config.local
You will find both configuration files under the install dir c:condor

22. condor_status
Good! So now we have a Personal Condor running on my laptop ☺

23. Let’s write a short C program and check
Condor: my own cpu_burn version:
#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int iMAX = 60000;
int i,j;
float fNORM, fMAX;
float x,y;
fMAX = iMAX; // convert to float
fNORM = fMAX * fMAX;
for (j=0;j<iMAX;j++)
for (i=0;i<iMAX;i++) {
y = i; // convert to float
x = y*y/fNORM;
}
return 0;
}

24. Just copy & paste the code to
your favorite IDE and compile

25. In a text editor create your
submit file:
universe = vanilla
You should have in the
executable = cpu_burn.exe same folder the
Error = executable and the
err.$(Cluster).$(Process) submit file
Output =
out.$(Cluster).$(Process)
Log = log.$(Cluster).$(Process)
Queue 5

26. Submit 5 jobs

27. Watch the Task Manager
The heat is on

28. Check with condor_q the
progress of your jobs

29. All jobs were processed

30. Condor daemons while
executing cpu_burn

31. Check the logfile that was
created
000 (088.001.000) 04/26 10:23:10 Job submitted from host:
<127.0.0.1:50486>
...
001 (088.001.000) 04/26 10:23:19 Job executing on host: <127.0.0.1:50487>
...
005 (088.001.000) 04/26 10:24:20 Job terminated.
(1) Normal termination (return value 0)
Usr 0 00:00:27, Sys 0 00:00:00 - Run Remote Usage
Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00 - Run Local Usage
Usr 0 00:00:27, Sys 0 00:00:00 - Total Remote Usage
Usr 0 00:00:00, Sys 0 00:00:00 - Total Local Usage
0 - Run Bytes Sent By Job
15686 - Run Bytes Received By Job
0 - Total Bytes Sent By Job
15686 - Total Bytes Received By Job
...

32. That’s it
Send your comments/suggestions to
Guy Tel-Zur
gtelzur at bgu dot ac dot il