HTCondor vs Volcano
HTCondor
htcondor.com
Volcano
volcano.shSide by side
| Figure | HTCondor | Volcano |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 0 | 0 |
| Spec score · GPU Cluster Management Software | 7.9 (#8) | 6.5 (#19) |
| Community support | Free, community-based best-effort support is available through the htcondor-users mailing list. | The project directs users to the CNCF #volcano Slack channel, a mailing list, and GitHub issues and repositories. |
| Purpose | HTCondor creates a High-Throughput Computing environment by using the computing power of networked machines, clusters, cloud resources, and international grids. | Volcano is a cloud native system for high-performance workloads and a container batch scheduling project. |
In their own words
HTCondor
HTCondor is a free high-throughput computing system that coordinates networked machines to run submitted jobs. It finds available machines, matches their resource offers to job requirements and preferences through ClassAds, and can restart a job elsewhere if its current machine becomes unavailable. It is suited to submitting large batches, including thousands of runs across different data sets, and can use otherwise idle machines in a pool. Users do not need login accounts on machines running their jobs; file transfers and split execution support that model. HTCondor can draw on clusters, cloud resources, and international grids, and flocking can connect multiple installations. It supports transfers to and from S3-compatible storage, including Google Cloud Storage through its S3 interoperability API, but not entire buckets or directories. The software is licensed under Apache License 2.0, includes Python bindings, and offers user and administrator guides. Community support is available through a mailing list; paid contract support offers guaranteed resolution and faster turnaround. Security fixes cover current feature and LTS versions, with the previous LTS supported for approximately twelve months after a new LTS release.