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Getting Started with Condor

Cluster computing emerged as a field in the early 90s when hardware prices where dropping and PCs where getting more and more powerful. Companies where shifting from large "Mini Computers" to small and powerful "Micro Computers", many people realized that this would lead to large scale wastage of computing power, as computing resource where being more and more distributed. Organizations of today have hundreds of PCs in their offices. Many of them idle most of the time. However organizations of today also require huge computing power to remain competitive, thus the demand for supercomputing solutions which nowadays are largely built on cluster computing ideas remains stable.
However it is also possible to forego the purchase of commercial cluster computing solutions and setup your own cluster using freely available software. This article is about one of those software, developed by University of Wisconsin, called Condor.

Read the full article at Linux Journal