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Subject: Batch system NQS for iris and others
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:48:00 GMT
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A question about the availability of a batch sytem:
There is a batch system called
   Network Queueing Service (NQS)
which is either available for new iris's or will be soon. It is
running on many machines and works well on our convex C-220.
It is written by Sterling software, I believe under commission from
NASA.
Our intention would be to run it on a new iris server.
My question is the following:
    From some scanty documentation it would seem possible to set this
thing up so a little workstation could feed a queue running on one of
the iris servers. This would require NQS to run on the little machine.

Does anyone know more about this product ?
Is it possible to feed an Iris queue from another vendor machine ?
Is there a specific name and address for someone at either NASA or
Sterling software who would know more ?

Thanks for any advice or pointers to more info.

-Andrew Torda               (bitnet)           torda@hgrrug52