Re: Queue Task Software on Linux ?
on Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 06:11:33PM -0500, thannguy @ cse. psu. edu (thannguy@cse.psu.edu) wrote:
> I have a question about the task queuing handling in linux. I am doing
> some researches within a group and everyone's task needs a lot of
> computation power and memory (around 500M per task). The machine we have
> has 2 Xeon processors at 2 GHz/each and 3gigs of memory, the OS is
> Debian Sid. However since each task requires too much resources even
> that machine can't handle it so I want to use a queue system so that
> everyone can submit the job but only two are kept running at a time . I
> know such stuff for parallel computing at linux cluster, but I don't
> know if there is such stuff for SMP. Is there some sort of softwares or
> a way to do such thing ?
I suspect 'dqs' or 'queue' packages may do what you're looking for.
They can be set up across a cluster or a single system, and offer
finer-grained control than the traditional cron/at/batch GNU/Linux job
schedulers.
Peace.
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