It is common practice to submit many jobs: each job with about the same content, but with different parameters for the program to run. Examples are parameter scans and Monte-Carlo simulations. There are a number of problems with this kind of jobs: - The number of jobs is so large that a script or program has to be developed to generate these jobs. - In order to make maximum use of the capacity of the system, care should be taken, that the maximum number of programs are running simultaneously o
MassCTRL is a remote control center for your linux clients and servers. With MassCTRL it's possible to manage updates and other tasks on groups of linux clients or servers. The response of the processes can be logged and reviewed in one single location. MassCTRL can also be used as en execution server and centralize all automatic timebased jobs from one crontab instead of setting cronjobs locally on servers. MassCTRL uses so called group files and recipe files. A recipe can contain one or many
The pbs_python package is a wrapper class for the Torque C library. With this package you now can write utilities/extensions in Python instead of C. We developed this package because we want to replace xpbsmon by an ascii version named pbsmon. PBSQuery is also included in this package. This is a python module build on top of the pbs python module to simplify querying the batch server, eg: how many jobs, how many nodes, ..
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