[Bioclusters] How to setup fair_share schedule in OpenPBS

[Marco Aurelio Stelmar Netto]

Hi,

If you want only some basic functionalities to manage a cluster, you can
try Crono. Some features of Crono are: support to manage one or more than
one cluster, space and time shared allocation, batch jobs and interactive
modes, back-fill scheduling algorithm, pre and post processing scripts and
possibility to define access rights for users and user groups.

It is free and you can download at
http://www.cpad.pucrs.br/crono

If you want a powerful resource manager, I do not suggest Crono.


Marco

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Rayson Ho wrote:

> --- Guishan Zheng <gzheng@emory.edu> wrote:
> > Recently, we got a new PC cluster and use OpenPBS 2.3 to manage all
> > jobs to be executed. OpenPBS is a new stuff to our administration
> > group.
>
> If you are starting to learn OpenPBS, and no other users have
> experience with it, then I would suggest you not to use OpenPBS at
> all!!
>
> You should use GridEngine, which is also free and opensource, but more
> modern and the development is more active, and more features and more
> active users.
>
> http://gridengine.sunsource.net
>
> Rayson
>
>
>
>
> > Currently, we use
> > all default setup in OpenPBS and thus as we've known, the scheduler
> > would be
> > FIFO and the policy is FIFO, which is not fair as we understood.
> > Thus, it would
> > be nice for us to use fair_share rule, which would make whole system
> > resource be
> > fair and more efficiently used by all users. However, we are not 100%
> > sure
> > whether the only change is change option of "fair_share" from "false"
> > to "true"
> > in file sched_config on PBS server. What else we should do for making
> > this
> > "fair_share" working? Is there better rule than fair_share to make
> > all user have
> > fair share of system resources?
> >
> > As well, it would be nice for all users to know what is the order of
> > their jobs
> > in the queue, from which they could know when the jobs from
> > themselves would be
> > picked up. Is there any command could show this? What's the meaning
> > of SessID?
> >
> > I appreciate your attention and all response.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Guishan Zheng
> >
> >
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