Re: Queue Task Software on Linux ?
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 17:11, 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 ?
You want what's variously called a "Job Scheduler" or "Queue Manager"
or "job spooler".
Very common in the MVS, VMS & "big, proprietary Unix" worlds.
Here's one, which is closed-source, and emulates the VMS Queue
Manager:
http://www.sector7.com/products/toolkits/vxjsp.htm
(Mainly to aide in VMS-Unix conversion, but should also help you.)
A job scheuler written in sh:
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1229/sam9201d/9201d.htm
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