CCL: Queuing systems - summary

[Victor Rosas Garcia <rosas.victor#%#gmail.com>]

 Hello everybody,

Well, it seems no more suggestions are coming, so
 I'll summarize:

Recommendations have been:

Torque, Slurm and
 Sun Grid Engine.

The Sun Grid Engine has now forked into 4 packages:
 
*Oracle Grid Engine (http://www.oracle.com/us/products/tools/oracle-grid-engine-075549.html) 
 Proprietary $$$
 
*Univa Grid Engine Open Core (https://github.com/gridengine/gridengine) Only the core is
 free. 

*Son of Grid Engine  (https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE), as soon as I found the
 phrase "Building the source is rather a pain," I ran away from it.
 
*Open Grid Scheduler (http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/) I had problems with
 the documentation. Seems like the installation is far from straightforward.
 
Regarding Slurm, I was put off by the need to install yet another package
 (MUNGE) for authentication.  Torque seems pretty well self-contained and it
 has the most (to
  me) understandable documentation, so I'll stick with it.  
 
Thank you to Alcides Simao, Marcel Swart, Steen Hammerun, Mikolak Feliks and
 Herbert Fruchtl for their input.

Have a nice day.

Victor