Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 00:24:36 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:48:03 GMT Content-length: 1727 How did the Condor Project start

How did the Condor project start?


Building on the results of the Remote-Unix (RU) project that was directed by Professors D. Dewitt, R. Finkel, and M. Solomon and as a continuation of the work in the area of Distribute Resource Management (DRM) by a group directed by Professor M. Livny, the Condor project started in 1988. Following the spirit of its predecessors, the project has been focusing on customers with large computing needs and environments with heterogeneous distributed resources. From the RU effort, the Condor project inherited a rich collection of mechanisms and a very sound software foundation. The first version of the Condor Resource Management system (initially called the RU system) was implemented in 1986 as a joint effort between the two groups by A. Bricker and M. Litzkow who were at the time staff members of the RU project. The nucleus for the management policies of the Condor project was provided by the distributed allocation and preemptive scheduling techniques developed as part of the Ph.d thesis work of Professor M. Mutka from the DRM group. While originally focusing on the problem of Load Balancing in a distributed system, the DRM group shifted its attention in the mid 80th to Distributively Owned computing environments where owners have full control over the resources they own.