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Advanced Job Scheduling?

Posted by Cliff on from the beyond-at-and-cron dept.

Kagato asks: "I'm trying to make my company's Unix boxes more mission critical in the area of job scheduling. Scheduling jobs in Unix has been around since the dawn of time. On most systems you have 'cron' and 'at' to provide most of your scheduling needs. But outside the basic world of 'do this at such time' there are a slew of commercial products that handle dependencies, failure routes, monitoring, dependent notification, etc. Commercial products of this type have been around for years. Is there anything like this available in the GNU and Open Source worlds? I've been looking at Freshmeat, SourceForge and Google. I've found the pickings for advanced scheduling are pretty slim."

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  1. A few options by muleboy · · Score: 5, Informative
    I have been looking into this lately, and here are the options I have found:

    • Condor - seems to be the best free as in beer scheduler, but it's not free as in speech.
    • OpenPBS - This one is sort of Free, but it is being developed by a company that doesn't seem so sure it likes it that way. The code goes BSD after a couple of years, and they've been doing that for several years, yet they don't make the old (now BSD) versions available, and they make you register just to download.
    • Sun GridEngine - Free, and it looks pretty sweet. I couldn't get it to work on Debian, but people on the mailing list said they were using it with Debian.
    • Globus Toolkit - Not so sure about this one.
    • Maui - Scheduler system for supercomputers
    • OSCAR - Sweet project from IBM to put together all the best Free tools for clustering! They are using the Maui scheduler in their system.

    What I would really like to see is a HOWTO that gives a good overview of scheduling and clustering. Everything I have found so far is not so good.