scw@seashell.seas.ucla.edu (Stephen C Woods/) (08/29/90)
This doesn't seem to have gotten out when I posted it, sorry if it's a dup.
We are looking for a Batch system to be run on AIX/370 on a 3090. Rather
than reinvent the wheel (for the umpteenth time) we thought that it would be
a good idea to poll the net. Please reply directly to me (scw@seas.ucla.edu)
and in a couple of weeks I'll summarize to the net.
Our needs are as follows (given source we can add any of these):
1 Graded priorities, jobs of a lesser priority will not be released when
jobs of a higher priority are running. (exception, see (3) below).
2 Resource limits (al la BSD limits and or SYSV ulimit) with the extensions
that processes that have exceeded some Hard limit (at say 110% of
allocated) will be killed nicely (SIGTERM) then (at say 120%) terminated
with extreme prejudice (SIGKILL).
3 Timed release queues, jobs that will be run at specific times (late
at night, and on weekends), these jobs will be suspended when the time
that they are supposed to be running in expires.
Please don't waste your time and ours with pointers to at, cron, or MDQS
(in addition to being a print spooler it was also a fair-to-middling batch
system). We are interested in pointers to something that my boss heard
about called NQS, but please let us know about anything else.
advTHANKSance
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UUCP: ...!{ibmsupt,hao!cepu}!ollie}!scw Internet:scw@SEAS.UCLA.EDU vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov (Tony Hackenberg) (08/29/90)
In article <996@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> scw@seashell.seas.ucla.edu (Stephen C Woods/) writes: >This doesn't seem to have gotten out when I posted it, sorry if it's a dup. > > We are looking for a Batch system to be run on AIX/370 on a 3090. Rather >than reinvent the wheel (for the umpteenth time) we thought that it would be >a good idea to poll the net. Please reply directly to me (scw@seas.ucla.edu) >and in a couple of weeks I'll summarize to the net. > > Our needs are as follows (given source we can add any of these): > > 1 Graded priorities, jobs of a lesser priority will not be released when > jobs of a higher priority are running. (exception, see (3) below). > > 2 Resource limits (al la BSD limits and or SYSV ulimit) with the extensions > that processes that have exceeded some Hard limit (at say 110% of > allocated) will be killed nicely (SIGTERM) then (at say 120%) terminated > with extreme prejudice (SIGKILL). > > 3 Timed release queues, jobs that will be run at specific times (late > at night, and on weekends), these jobs will be suspended when the time > that they are supposed to be running in expires. >system). We are interested in pointers to something that my boss heard >about called NQS, but please let us know about anything else. > CRAY Research, Inc., Sterling Software, Inc., and NASA/Ames Research Center jointly worked on a product called NQS (Network Queueing System). It is a batch subsystem for UNICOS (CRAY's operating system for its supercomputers). Other vendors have picked up NQS and offered it as part of their product (CONVEX). A public domain version (or a govt copyrighted version that costs nothing but needs some work) may be available from NASA/Ames. Email me at vvawh@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov for contacts.
fouts@bozeman.bozeman.ingr.UUCP (Martin Fouts) (09/10/90)
NQS. NQS is a derivitive of the Multiple Device Queuing System. It was invented for NASA Ames by Informatics General Corporation. It was designed by Jim Tanner (now at Boeing) and implemented by Brent Kingsbury (now at Sequent.) NQS is supported in industry as a batch system for Unix. (At least Cray, Convex, and Intergraph support it that I am aware of.) There is a version available for UTS, and another for BSD, so I would assume that it would be easy to port to AIX, if it hasn't already been. NQS is also in the process of becoming an IEEE standard. You can obtain the "public domain" source for the original version from COSMIC, or you can contact Dave Tweten at Ames for further information. I believe Dave can be reached at det@orville.nas.nasa.gov Marty -- Martin Fouts UUCP: ...!pyramid!garth!fouts (or) uunet!ingr!apd!fouts ARPA: apd!fouts@ingr.com PHONE: (415) 852-2310 FAX: (415) 856-9224 MAIL: 2400 Geng Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303 Moving to Montana; Goin' to be a Dental Floss Tycoon. - Frank Zappa