batch systems with job deps (afterok)

[Jakob Østergaard]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:22:58PM +0200, hanzl at noel.feld.cvut.cz wrote:
> Hi batch system gurus,
> 
> is there any opensource batch system with support for job
> dependencies?
> 
> The only one I found is OpenPBS (afterok feature of qsub) but it is
> not easy to run on scyld. Any other ideas please?
> 
> All we need is to run 100 jobs in any order, then one job to merge
> results, then 100 jobs again and so on.

If your jobs are relatively short lived (not days long), you could do this with
ANTS (http://unthought.net/antsd) and a Makefile to get the dependencies right.

I think that could be a simple and efficient solution to your problem - but
note that ANTS is not meant to be a real batch queue system, and it therefore
does not have features such as queues, accounting, etc. etc.

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