[comp.unix.aix] batch job manager - is there one?

CCVJ@latvax8.lat.oz (09/18/90)

Does anyone know of a batch job manager, either public domain or third 
party?  We have purchased three IBM 6000 AIX machines to mainly run 
computationally expensive research jobs, mostly in batch.  These jobs 
and their users will be coming from a VMS environment where "SUBMIT" 
is pretty user friendly, and its fairly easy to manage priorities, 
etc.

Any info would be greatly appreciated as we anticipate its going to be 
fairly difficult to convince some of the users of the benefits of 
moving to the faster machines when they aren't used to UNIX.

As an aside, has anyone had experiences with coaxing users from one 
environment to another?  Did you find computer based training useful, 
or classes or one-to-one help best?

Thanks.

Vicki Jordan
Systems Programmer, La Trobe University
Bundoora, Vic, Australia, 3083

ccvj@lure.latrobe.edu.au

bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) (09/19/90)

Article <4673@latvax8.lat.oz> by CCVJ@latvax8.lat.oz says:
|Does anyone know of a batch job manager, ...
Won't batch/at do?
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CCHD@lure.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies - La Trobe University Computer Centre) (09/25/90)

In article <960@nlsun1.oracle.nl>, bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
> Article <4673@latvax8.lat.oz> by CCVJ@latvax8.lat.oz says:
> |Does anyone know of a batch job manager, ...
> Won't batch/at do?
> -- 
> Bjorn Engsig,	Domain:		bengsig@oracle.nl, bengsig@oracle.com
> 		Path:		uunet!mcsun!orcenl!bengsig

We would prefer to have some control over CPU usage. Ideally we would
like to set up a queue of batch jobs and only execute some subset
concurrently. We would also like to control the priority that
batch jobs run at - currently users can set it to anything and
then compete with interactive users. Finally, it would be nice if
we chould have the queue point to a different system for execution - that
is, the user is logged into machine A, submits a batch job which then
runs on machine B.

Vicki has had a number of replies to this request, and will post a
summary when she returns to work.

Huw Davies
Senior Systems Programmer
La Trobe University
Melbourne Australia