If you want to use commercial product, you can try LSF (www.platform.com). This one falls as a cluster solution. Also, there is something developed by Turbo Linux, but I cannot remind the name. --- Geoff Gigg <di874 [ at ] freenet [ dot ] carleton [ dot ] ca> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a simple, open, batch queuing > package for Linux? > Something more featured than at and cron, but not so > complex as the > clustering solutions? > > Some background - > > I am porting an application from UNIX to Linux > (which is scary because I > am an expert in neither, but somehow the UNIX > application has been going > for about 8 years now). I investigated various UNIX > batch queuing packages > at the time, and found that most were very out of > date and no longer > actively supported. People had moved on to > clustering approaches, and the > old, simple solutions were left behind. So I wrapped > *at* with a kludgy > mechanism to get what I wanted - a means of > controlling the order and > number of executing jobs. > > Now I find the Linux *at* to be lacking some of the > UNIX's features, such > as no accompanying queuedefs file that limits the > number of simultaneously > executing jobs, and the termination of job status on > running jobs after > one hour. > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=150667) > > I could wrap this again, but before doing that, I'm > wondering if anyone > else has found a simple batch queuing package for > Linux. I've looked at > various alternatives, such as: > > GNU Queue > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-queue/ > Being rewritten, not available for download > More of a load balancer > > Generic NQS > http://www.gnqs.org/ > Not maintained for 6 years. > > Portable Batch System > http://www.openpbs.org/ > Unsupported, old, unfriendly keepers > > You get the picture! > > Funnily enough, there IS a standard for a simple > UNIX/Linux batch system. > It's called "Batch Environment Services" and it's > part of the Open > Group/IEEE Single Unix Specification. To view it: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/ > Select a volume: Shell and utilities > Shell and utilities: 3. Batch environment services > > It has all of the needed commands: qalter qdel qhold > qstat qsub, etc. > > But it's optional - you can be certified as > compliant without implementing > Batch Environment Services, and to the best of my > knowledge, no one has. I > guess there's just no demand for it. > > Any comments appreciated. > > Thank you! > > Geoff Gigg > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com