The title of this thread caught my eye. Still havent found a suitable answer as to what Vanilla Mode Development is. I have found that there are "Vanilla Modes" in the language GAUSS which is a matrix manipulation language (heavy math stuff). Also, there is a "Vanilla Mode" for project Condor which seems to be really cool stuff. A short description:
Condor Project
Designed at UW in Madison, Condor is a software package that allows users to make use of unused computer cycles in a networked environment. It is designed with the basic premise that most computer usage is inefficient and generally wasteful.
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So what it boils down to is that the computer is either overused or underused. Condor changes this model by requiring all jobs to go through a submission process. A centralized manager receives the requests, determines which machine would be best suited to run it, and then sends the process off to that machine.
But wait, there's more! Not only does Condor determine which machine to send jobs to, but will monitor the state of a machine and either kill the job, suspend it, or move it to another machine if certain conditions are met! Condor uses a set of very customizeable rules which determine whether or not jobs should continue if people are on console, the load average is too high, it's raining on a Tuesday, etc.
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Vanilla mode allows Condor to suspend or kill jobs on machines that are no longer suitable for Condor, and the jobs can then be automatically restarted on other machines.
