Rayson Ho wrote: >AFAIK, they didn't release the source... the license was modified a few >years ago to add the opensource terms, but they keep on saying that >they can't release the source because the source won't build outside of >their environment! (WTF?) > > I stand corrected. I just checked the download sites. I had thought there was source on there a number of years ago (5.x time frame). I see lots of built binaries (somewhat up to date), but no source. >http://lists.cs.wisc.edu/archive/condor-users/2004-August/msg00167.shtml > >Also, Condor sends the cluster information back to the University of >Wisconsin: > >http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/privacy > >I personally don't like the idea of having someone spying on my >cluster. > > Ganglia monitor allows you to configure this, and all gridded machines (in the Globus sense) do something similar when they join a computational or data grid. I think it would be incorrect to call it spying. Monitoring may be more accurate and more appropriate. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 612 4615