Re: Interactive task scheduling (system) ? How do I run a list of tasks consecutively on a server ?

[Jonathan Billings]

On Jan 21, 2022, at 13:08, Roger Heflin  wrote:
> In the past I have used this one:
> one called Torque that is in the repo.  It has a client piece and a
> server piece.   You would have to define the queue such that it would
> only run a single job at a time and then submit them in order.

Torque, based on the old PBS code, is very common in HPC clusters so this is a good recommendation. It might be overkill for a single user but it is a great tool.

Other schedulers commonly used:

SLURM: https://slurm.schedmd.com/
HTCondor: https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/
(There are others but their names evade me)

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Jonathan Billings