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An introduction to PORTABLE BATCH SYSTEM (PBS)

M.Corbatto `<corbatto@sissa.it>`

Gen 2000

This document is a brief PBS user guide and is structured so that most people will only need to read the first three chapters; the chapter four is an introduction guide to configure the daemons and to administrate the system. Latest PBS version and complete documentation can be found at PBS Home Page

1. Introduction

1.1 PBS features
1.2 Components of PBS
1.3 Interactions between PBS components in a multiple hosts configuration
1.4 Jobs overview
1.5 Resources

2. User commands

2.1 Job identifiers
2.2 Directing requests to correct server
2.3 qalter - alter pbs batch job
2.4 qdel - delete pbs batch job
2.5 qhold - hold pbs batch jobs
2.6 qmove - move a pbs batch job to another queue
2.7 qmsg - send a message into standard output/error of pbs batch jobs
2.8 qorder - exchange order of two pbs batch jobs in a queue
2.9 qrerun - rerun a pbs batch job
2.10 qrls - release hold on pbs batch job
2.11 qselect - list the job identifiers in accordance with selection criteria
2.12 qstat - show status of pbs batch jobs
2.13 qsub - submit a new pbs job
2.14 nqs2pbs - convert NQS job scripts to PBS

3. Submitting MPI parallel jobs

4. System configuration

4.1 qmgr - pbs batch system manager command
4.2 Starting the daemons
4.3 Configuring the Execution Server, pbs_mom
4.4 Configuring the Job Server, pbs_server
4.5 Configuring the Scheduler, pbs_sched

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