HTCondor Alternatives

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 IBM Spectrum LSF. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenLava or GNU Parallel.

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HTCondor is an open-source high-throughput computing software framework for coarse-grained distributed parallelization of...

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IBM Spectrum LSF
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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.
- - IBM Spectrum LSF is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to HTCondor.
- - IBM Spectrum LSF is the most popular commercial alternative to HTCondor.
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OpenLava
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OpenLava is an open source workload job scheduler for a cluster of computers.[1] OpenLava was derived from an early version of Platform LSF.[2] Its configuration file syntax, application program interface (API), and command-line interface (CLI) have been kept unchanged.
- - OpenLava is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to HTCondor.
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GNU Parallel
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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. It is available under the terms of GPLv3
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WinRM
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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..
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IBM Spectrum LSF

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OpenLava

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GNU Parallel

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WinRM

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