Integrating Condor Desktop Clusters with Grid

Abstract

Grid infrastructures today are expanding slowly because adding computing resources is sometimes an expensive and bureaucratic procedure. In contrast, desktop grid technologies like Condor and B.O.I.N.C provide an easy and inexpensive way of creating large distributed systems that provide their idle computing time for job execution. We successfully tested the interconnection of a Condor pool with an EGEE site and we are in the process of expanding this infrastructure inside the University. We will also investigate the possible security, reliability and connection issues as we envision the expansion of this infrastructure to other remote computing resources like school computer labs.