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 Machines sit idle for long periods of time, often while their users are busy doing other things. **Condor takes this wasted computation time and puts it to good use**. The situation today matches that of yesterday, with the addition of clusters in the list of resources. These machines are often dedicated to tasks. Condor manages a cluster's effort efficiently, as well as handling other resources.  Machines sit idle for long periods of time, often while their users are busy doing other things. **Condor takes this wasted computation time and puts it to good use**. The situation today matches that of yesterday, with the addition of clusters in the list of resources. These machines are often dedicated to tasks. Condor manages a cluster's effort efficiently, as well as handling other resources. 
 http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2/download.pl http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/downloads-v2/download.pl
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 +**Sun Grid Engine (SGE)**
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 +SGE is typically used on a computer farm or high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and is responsible for accepting, scheduling, dispatching, and managing the remote and distributed execution of large numbers of standalone, parallel or interactive user jobs. It also manages and schedules the allocation of distributed resources such as processors, memory, disk space, and software licenses.
  
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