[Beowulf] torque vs openpbs?

John Hearns john.hearns at clustervision.com
Wed Oct 13 00:26:35 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 22:54, Hoeffel, Thomas wrote:
> our cluster environment is beginning to tax our openpbs installation.
> It runs fine on our old cluster (PIII's/10/100 switch) but is a bit quirky
> on the newer opterons (gig switches, more mem...etc.)
> Pricing for PBSPro is, well, a bit outrageous and I'm considering
> Torque/Maui combo.
> 
> Any thoughts/feedback on the size of the torque community, it's life
> expectancy..etc.
> SGE is currently not an option as we have 3rd party code which interfaces
> well w/ PBS but not SGE.
Is this a package called Materials Studio by any chance?

I posted something a few weeks ago to the Gridengine list about that.
Looking at the interface, it didn't look too hard to port to Gridengine.




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