[[!meta  title="Portable batch system"]]

[PBS][] software schedules jobs to efficiently allocate the available
computing resources.  It is often used on clusters, allowing users to
queue jobs which are executed once enough worker nodes become
available.  The main open-source PBS implementation is [Tourque][],
which provides the infrastructure.  [Maui][] (also open-source) plugs
into Torque and provides the scheduling logic.

See my [[cluster post|Abax]] for more details.

[[!tag tags/linux]]

[PBS]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Batch_System
[Torque]: http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/torque-resource-manager.php
[Maui]: http://www.clusterresources.com/pages/products/maui-cluster-scheduler.php