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Generic NQS

Abstract

Previously developed at the University of Sheffield, Generic NQS is established as one of the world's leading freely-available batch processing systems, featuring very wide availability, full support for individual platforms, cluster-wide dynamic scheduling, ease of installation, and highly-respected support. Generic NQS provides full support of both batch and device requests. Here a batch request is defined as a shell script containing commands not requiring the direct services of some physical device. In contrast, a device request is defined as a set of independent instructions requiring the direct services of a specific device for execution (e.g. a line printer request). Generic NQS supports the queueing and routing of batch and device requests throughout the network of machines running NQS.

Cost

Research package

DateOfInformation

Mon Jun 8 23:37:03 1998

Domain

Distributed Processing Tools

Keyword

resource allocation; job scheduling; workstation cluster

TargetEnvironment

Language: ANSI C - KnR compiles will not suffice! Operating systems: AIX 3,4; Digital UNIX;Dynix/Ptx; Fujitsu UPX/M; HPUX 8,9,10; IRIX 5,6; Linux; NCR UNIX; Solaris 2; SunOS 4; ULTRIX; UNICOS; Generic SYSVr4 and BSD4.3 ports as well. Includes SMP support for Digital UNIX & IRIX. Full native 64-bit support for IRIX 6 (some commercial vendors merely run IRIX 5 binaries on IRIX 6). Supports all resources supported by underlying platforms (some commercial vendors merely support a common subset).

Version

3.50.1

VersionDate

October 1996

Webpage

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nqs/

ContactIs

Generic NQS Help

Review Information

PTLIB Review of Generic NQS