UTOSC 2010 Day 1: TORQUE

Second class I unfortunately came in a little late, so I missed a few things (including a seat!), which is sad because it was a good presentation. Scott McQuay showed us TORQUE. It's a cluster resource manager, which is a fancy way to say that it handles distributing jobs to a cluster of computers. Overall I was impressed with it. The only weak point appears to be the scheduler where the default scheduler is naive and a more advanced one is proprietary only. And unfortunately I can't see anywhere that I could actually use this software, but it's a good one to keep in mind.

Miscellaneous Notes:

  • resource manager
  • pbs_mom - per-node daemon
  • pbs_server - master
  • qstat
  • pbs_sched - basic fifo scheduler
  • moab - commercial scheduler with more brains
  • set number of cpus per back-end
  • jobs can be wall time limited
  • dancer shell w/ public keys

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