During CondorWeek 2006 ,  Jason Stowe of Cycle Computing, presented a community-centric way of  enabling enterprises to get features added to Condor , including Configuration with Pipes, using close coordination with the Condor team at the University of Wisconsin.

The first feature added to Condor using this new pipeline is a new feature for obtaining configuration data from sources other than files, called Configuration with Pipes (CWP). Configuration with Pipes will allow users to leverage tools available to them to send configuration information into Condor. This will alleviate one of the most frequent problems with Condor installations in an enterprise: managing configuration and the associated files.

CWP favors a pull-mechanism where configurations are pulled when needed by Condor via a configurable command-line interface. Prior solutions to the configuration problem involved cumbersome work-arounds where another daemon or process would be running in parallel to Condor, then writing to the local drive when signalled via the network.

Although motivated by Commercial users of Condor, Configuration with Pipes benefits the condor community as a whole, and enables users to take advantage of unique tools they may have available to provide configuration to Condor.  As discussed in the presentation, it is being developed in cooperation with the Condor Project at the University of Wisconsin, using a model proposed by Miron Livny.

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