CondorCMF

A framework for implementing coordinator-follower and coordinator-manager-follower networks on vanilla HTCondor

CondorCMF is a Python package that allows users to schedule tasks following a coordinator-follower and coordinator-manager-follower paradigm on HTCondor. CondorCMF utilises a database to allow daemons in the vanilla HTCondor universe to communicate with one another.

Installing CondorCMF

To install CondorCMF, follow these steps:

pip install pip@git+https://github.com/mjcarter95/CondorCMF.git

Using CondorCMF

A number of example problems are provided in the examples folder.

Contributing to CondorCMF

To contribute to CondorCMF, follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b <branch_name>.
3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m '<commit_message>'
4. Push to the original branch: git push origin <project_name>/<location>
5. Create the pull request.

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request.

Authors

• Matthew Carter - mjcarter.co
• Ian Smith
• Edward Pyzer-Knapp
• Paul Spirakis
• Simon Maskell - simonmaskell.com

Contact

If you want to contact me you can reach me at <m (dot) j (dot) carter (at) liverpool (dot) ac (dot) uk>.

Citation

We appreciate citations as they let us discover what people have been doing with the software.

To cite CondorSMC in publications use:

Carter, M., Smith, I., Pyzer-Knapp, K., Spirakis, P. Maskell, S.,(2023). CondorSMC (1.0.0). https://github.com/mjcarter95/CondorSMC

Or use the following BibTeX entry:

@misc{CondorSMC,
  title = {CondorSMC (1.0.0)},
  author = {Carter, Matthew and Smith, Ian and Pyzer-Knapp, Edward and Spirakis, Paul and Maskell, Simon},
  year = {2023},
  month = may,
  howpublished = {GitHub},
  url = {https://github.com/mjcarter95/CondorSMC}
}