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From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.large
Subject: Wanted: a batch system with controls.
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.233728.6284@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Sep 90 23:37:28 GMT
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Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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We run an SGI 4D/240 with about 1000 registered users and are looking
for a PD batch system that can:
   1/ schedule several queues of jobs.
   2/ each queue should be able to
         a/ be stopped and started automatically at arbitrary times.
         b/ impose both maximun and default limits for various resources.
   3/ Users shoul be able to 
         a/ submit jobs to queues for processing.
         b/ check where their job is in relation to other jobs in the queue
	 c/ cancle their own jobs.

I wrote such a system for our IBM VM system. It is in C and the model should
transport reasonably well to UNIX. However I am very busy, aren't we all :-),
and would rather pick up something that already works.

I saw a reference to a batch system that was available on pemrac.space.swri.edu
but when I looked there I could not find it.

Does anybody know of a PD batch system for UNIX, pref SYSV but we now have 
most of the common Berkley features as extentions?

Is any body else interested in using our batch system if I decide to get it 
going?

Cheers Russelll.
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