PBS x SGE comparison?

[Ron Chen]

> Is there a documented scheduler interface, intended
> to remain
> relatively unchanged in the future?
See "Scheduler Daemon - schedd":

http://gridengine.sunsource.net/unbranded-source/browse/~checkout~/gridengine/source/daemons/schedd/schedd.html?content-type=text/html


> PBS pinpoints out that schedulers are supposed to be
> replaced, but I
> am not sure for SGE - is there more standards than
> just the current
> scheduling daemon source code?
SGE has a more feature-rich scheduler:
1. Share tree
2. Functional
3. Deadline
4. Override

Those features are somewhat important to enterprise
users.


> For sure, SGE scheduler _is_ the component I would
> like to replace
> with something custom, based on my little experience
> playing with SGE
> so far.
> 

Download the source and start hacking :-)
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/

 -Ron


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