HTCondor is described as 'Open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of computationally intensive tasks.[1] It can be used to manage workload on a dedicated cluster of computers, or to farm out work to idle desktop computers –' and is an app. There are four alternatives to HTCondor for Linux, Windows and Mac. The best HTCondor alternative is GNU Parallel, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like HTCondor are IBM Spectrum LSF, OpenLava and WinRM.
GNU parallel is a command-line driven utility for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems which allows the user to execute shell scripts or commands in parallel. GNU parallel is free software, written by Ole Tange in Perl.
LSF Session Scheduler enables users to run large collections of short duration tasks within the allocation of a single LSF job using a job-level task scheduler that allocates resources for the job once, and reuses the allocated resources for each task.
WinRM (Windows Remote Management) Is the name of Microsoft's remoting software for sending commands and scripts to remote computers where they can be scheduled as a job on the remote computers..
