hp-cluster bicatali@gentoo.org Condor is a open-source, specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion. Condor also contains mechanisms to submit jobs to grid-sites and supports many different grid toolkits. Enable the Condor's classified advertisement language Enable the Distributed Resource Management Application API Enable condor to communicate over firewall/NAT Enable the Condor Keyboard Daemon to monitor logged in X users for activity