The Condor cluster is our attempt of a “high throughput” cluster which gets it’s roots from Open Science Grid (OSG). The cluster was originally as simply a trial to see how the software worked. To deploy a demo instance quickly the original 4 nodes was built quickly utilizing a free trial of Bright Cluster Manger’s 9.1 easy 8 license. After understanding Condor better it was requested to expand. However, given the trail license of being able to only have 7 nodes and a master node and additional understanding of the software there will be a pivot to OpenHPC’s cluster management tools and Ansible. This next evolution of the Condor cluster is why there are two master nodes. The existing master node with Bright Computing on it was deemed to have too much superfluous software on it and a want to start “fresh”. As of writing this (Oct 2021), the legacy master node is used for user and group management as well as shared storage. There are, however, two nodes have been removed from Bright to test OpenHPC + XCAT.
