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