  <HR>  Building on the results of the Remote-Unix (RU) project that was directed by  Professors  <A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dewitt/dewitt.html">D. Dewitt, </A> R. Finkel,  and  <A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~solomon/solomon.html">M. Solomon </A> and as a continuation of  the work in the area of Distribute Resource Management (DRM)  by a group directed by Professor  <a HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~miron/miron.html"> M. Livny,</A> 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  <A HREF="http://www.cps.msu.edu/~mutka/">M. Mutka </A> 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.  </BODY>
