1 [[!meta title="Portable batch system"]]
3 [PBS][] software schedules jobs to efficiently allocate the available
4 computing resources. It is often used on clusters, allowing users to
5 queue jobs which are executed once enough worker nodes become
6 available. The main open-source PBS implementation is [Tourque][],
7 which provides the infrastructure. [Maui][] (also open-source) plugs
8 into Torque and provides the scheduling logic.
10 See my [[cluster post|Abax]] for more details.
14 [PBS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Batch_System
15 [Torque]: http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/torque-resource-manager.php
16 [Maui]: http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/maui-cluster-scheduler.php