Request: Batch system info

[Stephen C Woods/]

This doesn't seem to have gotten out when I posted it, sorry if it's a dup.

    We are looking for a Batch system to be run on AIX/370 on a 3090.   Rather
than reinvent the wheel (for the umpteenth time) we thought that it would be
a good idea to poll the net.  Please reply directly to me (scw at seas.ucla.edu)
and in a couple of weeks I'll summarize to the net.

    Our needs are as follows (given source we can add any of these):

 1  Graded priorities, jobs of a lesser priority will not be released when
    jobs of a higher priority are running. (exception, see (3) below).

 2  Resource limits (al la BSD limits and or SYSV ulimit) with the extensions
    that processes that have exceeded some Hard limit (at say 110% of
    allocated) will be killed nicely (SIGTERM) then (at say 120%) terminated
    with extreme prejudice (SIGKILL).  

 3  Timed release queues, jobs that will be run at specific times (late
    at night, and on weekends), these jobs will be suspended when the time
    that they are supposed to be running in expires.

Please don't waste your time and ours with pointers to at, cron, or MDQS
(in addition to being a print spooler it was also a fair-to-middling batch
system).  We are interested in pointers to something that my boss heard
about called NQS, but please let us know about anything else.

advTHANKSance
<scw>

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