Batch Schedulers

From The Cluster Agenda

Sun Grid Engine - SGE is an openly available Batch Scheduler. The Grid Engine project is an open source community effort to facilitate the adoption of distributed computing solutions. Sponsored by Sun Microsystems and hosted by CollabNet, the Grid Engine project provides enabling distributed resource management software for wide ranging requirements from compute farms to grid computing. Current versions are 5.3 and 6.0.

• Grid Engine Howto's - A good set of howto documents including Tight Integration of Parallel Libraries (MPICH,MPICH2,LAM,PVM)
• Grid Engine Manuals - full documentation set.
• Grid Engine Wiki - Links and discussion about Grid Engine

Torque - TORQUE is an open source resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. It is a community effort based on the original *PBS project and, with more than 1,200 patches, has incorporated significant advances in the areas of scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extensions contributed by NCSA, OSC, USC , the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations