Portable Batch System (PBS) is software that performs job scheduling, especially allocation of batch jobs among available resources. Derivatives include TORQUE, OpenPBS, and PBS Pro.
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Changing the queue for an already submitted PBS job
I have a job already submitted to a TORQUE queue. The system I submitted it on has several queues, and I want to change which queue I'm running it in. I found this question, which recommends the use ...
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Why is Torque changing the name of my output files?
I have a line in the script I submit to torque that looks like this:
#PBS -o /path/to/output/file/directory/file_name_with_some_underscores.out
But when I look ...
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Exit_status=15 , what does it mean? [closed]
I have a job which stops unexpectedly with Exit_status=15. What is the most probable error ?
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Implementing a fair scheduling policy on Maui/Torque
We have Maui and Torque on our lab's UNIX cluster. Right now, all jobs are served by FIFO. We'd like to implement a more fair policy, but I have not successfully implemented it. The online ...
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Starting multiple processes from a single PBS job and distributing them on the free cluster nodes
I'm not very familiar with PBS (we have torque installed here), and I have only used it to run one process per job so far, so bear with me.
The actual problem
I am trying to use Mathematica on a ...
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What does the priority of a PBS job really mean?
The qsub command which submits PBS jobs has a -p option that allows you to set the priority. From the man page:
Defines the ...
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Prolonging PBS job
It is quite painful to discover that a few-day long job is going to be prematurely killed due to an error in setting walltime limit for it.
Is there a way to change it for a running PBS job?
