Portable Batch System (PBS) is software that performs job scheduling, especially allocation of batch jobs among available resources. Derivatives include TORQUE, OpenPBS, and PBS Pro.
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Changing the queue for an already submitted PBS job
I have a job already submitted to a TORQUE queue. The system I submitted it on has several queues, and I want to change which queue I'm running it in. I found this question, which recommends the use of qalter, but qalter's man page doesn't have…
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Implementing a fair scheduling policy on Maui/Torque
We have Maui and Torque on our lab's UNIX cluster. Right now, all jobs are served by FIFO. We'd like to implement a more fair policy, but I have not successfully implemented it. The online documentation was not quite clear, and nothing that I've…
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Why is Torque changing the name of my output files?
I have a line in the script I submit to torque that looks like this:
#PBS -o /path/to/output/file/directory/file_name_with_some_underscores.out
But when I look for this output file, it's called something like…
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Parallelizing evolutionary algorithm on PBS
I have been granted access to a cluster running PBS and I'd like to run a Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) on it.
To those unfamiliar with EAs, Wikipedia summarizes it as:
Part One: Generate the initial population of individuals randomly (first…
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If a process created by a torque job forks and then exits, does torque kill the child processes?
I have a program that does some setup work, forks several times, and exits. The child processes do most of the heavy computing.
Will torque kill the child processes when it detects the parent process exiting?
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