GA8: Running Condor Tasks on a Grid Appliance¶

Set Up and Submit a Condor Job¶

• Once you are logged in through ssh into the Grid appliance, change your user to “griduser”, change your directory, and compile a simple program which estimates the value of “pi” using a Monte Carlo method:

• Inspect the “submit_montepi_vanilla” file - this file sets Condor up to submit two batches of 50 tasks, each of wihch runs one Monte Carlo task. Chech the status of the Condor pool (which shows nodes are connected, available for running tasks, busy, etc) with the “condor_status” command. Then use the “submit_montepi_vanilla” file to submit your job:

• Monitor the progress of your jobs with the “condor_q” command, which shows the status of your job queue. You can also check the status of the Condor pool with “condor_status” to see which resources become busy. Once the Monte Carlo tasks complete and there are no jobs in the queue, check the various results that have been obtained from the different tasks with the “grep” command: