Condor Seminar

From the Manchester Bio-Modelling Network

The BioModelling Network is organising a seminar on Condor and its use in the research environment of the MIB. Our two speakers will be Ian Cottam and David Wedge.

Title: Condor Seminars Wednesday 4 July, 12:00, in MIB Lecture Theatre

Speaker 1: Ian Cottam

Title: What Condor is and how to use it in MIB

Abstract

This short talk will introduce Condor -- a system for High Throughput Computation based on spare time on (currently) 100 PCs and Linux machines -- within MIB. After introducing the basic concepts, I will demonstrate a few, short submission scripts, showing how simple binaries or batch files can be run.

Slides of the seminar here.

Speaker 2: David Wedge

Title: Using Condor as a data-mining tool in the Biological and Chemical Sciences

Abstract

Many areas of science produce very large quantities of data for which relationships and patterns are unknown. Data-mining can be very time-consuming for these large datasets. By allowing a number of processes to run in parallel on different computers, Condor pools provide one way around this problem. The application of Condor to a range of domains including peptide quantification, molecular modelling and electronic sensing will be described in this talk.

Slides of the seminar here.

All are welcome.