PBS Pro Administrator Guide - Department of Electrical and ...
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Chapter 2<br />
Concepts <strong>and</strong> Terms<br />
<strong>PBS</strong> <strong>Pro</strong> 5.0<br />
<strong>Administrator</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />
<strong>PBS</strong> is a “distributed workload management” or a “distributed resource management” system.<br />
As such, <strong>PBS</strong> h<strong>and</strong>les management <strong>and</strong> monitoring <strong>of</strong> the computational workload<br />
on a set <strong>of</strong> one or more computers. Modern workload/resource management solutions like<br />
<strong>PBS</strong> include the features <strong>of</strong> traditional “batch queueing” but <strong>of</strong>fer greater flexibility <strong>and</strong><br />
control than first generation batch systems (such as the original UNIX batch system NQS).<br />
Workload management systems have three primary roles:<br />
Queuing <strong>of</strong> work or tasks to be run on a computer. Users submit tasks or<br />
“jobs” to the resource management system where they are queued<br />
up until the system is ready to run them.<br />
Scheduling i.e. the process <strong>of</strong> selecting which jobs to run when <strong>and</strong> where,<br />
according to a predetermined policy. Sites balance competing needs<br />
<strong>and</strong> goals on the system(s) to maximize efficient use <strong>of</strong> resources<br />
(both computer time <strong>and</strong> people time).<br />
Monitoring includes tracking <strong>and</strong> reserving system resources, <strong>and</strong> enforcing<br />
usage policy. This covers both user-level <strong>and</strong> system-level monitoring<br />
as well as monitoring <strong>of</strong> the scheduling algorithms to see how<br />
well they are meeting the stated goals<br />
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