CCL: Queuing system recommendations?



 Sent to CCL by: Herbert Fruchtl [herbert.fruchtl]^[st-andrews.ac.uk]
 
For ease of installation and use, it's a toss-up between SGE (Gridengine) and Torque. I personally like the SGE GUI, but I think Torque nowadays also comes with one (haven't used it since the free version of PBS (one of them...) turned into Torque). I think both have Ubuntu (and presumably Debian) installers. SLURM is slowly catching up, but not quite as easy to install, and it has no GUI.
 HTH,
   Herbert
 On 30/10/12 23:31, Victor Rosas Garcia rosas.victor#%#gmail.com wrote:
 
 Hello everybody,
 I'm thinking about setting up a queuing system for my cluster, but I am really
 at a loss about how to choose one.  I have heard about Torque and SQS, but never
 used any of them.  My cluster is a small, Debian-based 32-cpu cluster with local
 scratch disk space for each 4-cpu box.  So, I would like to know, what do
 CCL'ers actually use to queue their jobs?
 My calcs use a mix of mostly GAMESS-US and GROMACS with some ORCA.  Both GAMESS
 and GROMACS can easily use the whole cluster, but the ORCA calcs cannot use the
 whole cluster, thus the need to have them waiting for the next available box.
 Best regards
 Victor
 
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