system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) (10/25/90)
NQS is available from 2 places: Sterling Software, (415)964-9900. Cost: $7500. (US) for the first node. Anonymous ftp from pemrac.space.swri.edu in /public/convexug/nqs.tar.Z. I have not used either of these, though I am extremely interested in getting a batch queueing system to work. $7500 for NQS is far too much for us as a University. I don't what are the differences between the Sterling version and the anonftp version, though the anonftp version comes ready to go for Convex and Sun (only?) which are both much closer to real BSD than Apollo. Of interest is that NQS is available on SGI systems for about $600 (from SGI, with support!). I have tried to get another queueing system called 'batchd' running, so far unsuccessfully due to missing/incomplete BSD include files on the Apollo. It runs on Sun, Ultrix, vanilla BSD and SGI without trouble. -- Mike Peterson, System Administrator, U/Toronto Department of Chemistry E-mail: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca Tel: (416) 978-7094 Fax: (416) 978-8775
chlg1043@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/29/90)
There is another queueing system available from public FTP. We don't have it installed on our Apollos, but we do have it running on our Ardent Titans. The program is called MDQS (from BRI). You can ftp it from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu ~ftp/services/mdqs.tar.Z For our purposes, it seems to work out OK. I don't know if it has all the features that NQS has, but for general queueing, it does the job (as far as we could tell...) Chris Lee lee@gate.spg.uiuc.edu