HTCondor Glossary
ClassAd |
Mechanism used by HTCondor to describe jobs and machines. HTCondor continuously performs a matchmaking analysis between the submitted jobs classAds and the machine classAds in order to run jobs where the requirements in both job classAd and machine ClassAd are satisfied.
To display a job classAd you can use the command: > condor_q <job_id> -long |
HTCondor pool |
Set of machines used for executing jobs managed by HTCondor |
Resource |
A resource in HTCondor is a machine. A machine may have many slots. |
condor_schedd (Schedd) |
Daemon that rappresents resource requests to the HTCondor pool. When users submit jobs, these go to the condor_schedd, where they are stored in the job queue managed by this process. |
Slot |
A slot can execute a job submitted by a user |
