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Name: OpenPBS

Version: 2.3.16 w/ local modifications

Description:

The freeware version of the Portable Batch System, a flexible, multiplatform resource allocation and job scheduling system orginally developed for NASA's vector and parallel supercomputers.

Installation Path:

/usr/local/pbs
/var/local/pbs

Documentation:

Usage Notes:

On SciClone, all non-trivial computations should be submitted through PBS. See the SciClone User's Guide for more information about running jobs on SciClone.

SciClone's PBS scheduler has been customized locally to provide addtional features such as priority aging and backfilling around starving jobs.