Another (almost) new (free) batch manager ! You might remember NQS which is kind of old now … several vendors developped their own extensions and NQS became almost impossible to maintain. Folks at Nasa decided to rewrite it from scratched and they developped OpenPBS. A commercially supported version was born from OpenPBS : PBSPro which was bought by Veridian, which was then acquired by Altair. Well, Torque is based on the free OpenPBS which had been quite unmaintained for a while. A lot of sysadmins where very happy with OpenPBS, and for several reasons could not move to the commercial PBSPro. I am pretty sure they will be just like me very excited to try Torque.
Here is another item on my todo list : write a comparison between famous batch managers :
- Torque by Cluster Resources
- PBSPro by Altair
- LSF by Platform Computing
- Sun Grid Engine by Sun microsystems
- N1 Grid Engine by Sun microsystems