The .NET Web service enabled interface to the Condor system has been constructed in order to achieve programmatic, platform and language neutral access to the resources managed by Condor. It provides mappings between the computation toolkit functions and the resource management mechanisms of Condor. The interface is primarily an interpreter between XML messages representing the compute operations and the ClassAd language of Condor. It also hides from the users details of resource management that are proprietary to Condor, so as to achieve the desired transparency.

In addition to interactions with Condor, the service also implements general Grid service functions that are not provided by the Condor system, such as management of security and process status. Furthermore, the service has also adopted several enhancements from future Web service technologies, such as DIME. We allow use of Windows and Linux Condor resources from Matlab.

XML Toolbox for Matlab