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From: vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Hackenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Request: Batch system info
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.042351.26816@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 29 Aug 90 04:23:51 GMT
References: <996@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: vvawh@convx1.UUCP (Tony Hackenberg,,,)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center, Cleveland
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In article <996@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> scw@seashell.seas.ucla.edu (Stephen C Woods/) writes:
>This doesn't seem to have gotten out when I posted it, sorry if it's a dup.
>
>    We are looking for a Batch system to be run on AIX/370 on a 3090.   Rather
>than reinvent the wheel (for the umpteenth time) we thought that it would be
>a good idea to poll the net.  Please reply directly to me (scw@seas.ucla.edu)
>and in a couple of weeks I'll summarize to the net.
>
>    Our needs are as follows (given source we can add any of these):
>
> 1  Graded priorities, jobs of a lesser priority will not be released when
>    jobs of a higher priority are running. (exception, see (3) below).
>
> 2  Resource limits (al la BSD limits and or SYSV ulimit) with the extensions
>    that processes that have exceeded some Hard limit (at say 110% of
>    allocated) will be killed nicely (SIGTERM) then (at say 120%) terminated
>    with extreme prejudice (SIGKILL).  
>
> 3  Timed release queues, jobs that will be run at specific times (late
>    at night, and on weekends), these jobs will be suspended when the time
>    that they are supposed to be running in expires.
>system).  We are interested in pointers to something that my boss heard
>about called NQS, but please let us know about anything else.
>

CRAY Research, Inc., Sterling Software, Inc., and NASA/Ames Research Center
jointly worked on a product called NQS (Network Queueing System).  It is a
batch subsystem for UNICOS (CRAY's operating system for its supercomputers).
  
  Other vendors have picked up NQS and offered it as part of their product
  (CONVEX).
    
    A public domain version (or a govt copyrighted version that costs 
    nothing but needs some work) may be available from NASA/Ames.
    Email me at vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov for contacts.