What is Condor, in English?

Cycle-scavenging
It can farm out computational work to idle desktop computers.
Runs on everything
Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and (even) MS Windows.
It can work as a traditional batch system
It can manage workload (jobs) on a dedicated cluster of computers (Beowulf) in place of SGE/LSF/PBS. . .
Glue
Can seamlessly integrate dedicated and other resources, e.g., Beowulfs, and (idle) teaching clusters and/or office desktop machines.
All types of jobs
Can schedule serial and parallel jobs.
Backfill
On traditional HPC clusters. . .

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