github.com/quite/nomad@v0.8.6/website/source/intro/vs/htcondor.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "intro" 3 page_title: "Nomad vs. HTCondor" 4 sidebar_current: "vs-other-htcondor" 5 description: |- 6 Comparison between Nomad and HTCondor 7 --- 8 9 # Nomad vs. HTCondor 10 11 HTCondor is a batch queuing system that is traditionally deployed in 12 grid computing environments. These environments have a fixed set of 13 resources, and large batch jobs that consume the entire cluster or 14 large portions. HTCondor is used to manage queuing, dispatching and 15 execution of these workloads. 16 17 HTCondor is not designed for services or long lived applications. 18 Due to the batch nature of workloads on HTCondor, it does not prioritize 19 high availability and is operationally complex to setup. It does support 20 federation in the form of "flocking" allowing batch workloads to 21 be run on alternate clusters if they would otherwise be forced to wait. 22 23 Nomad is focused on both long-lived services and batch workloads, and 24 is designed to be a platform for running large scale applications instead 25 of just managing a queue of batch work. Nomad supports a broader range 26 of workloads, is designed for high availability, supports much 27 richer constraint enforcement and bin packing logic. 28