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TORQUE

TORQUE

The Terascale Open-source Resource and QUEue Manager (TORQUE)[5] is a distributed resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE can integrate with the non-commercial Maui Cluster Scheduler or the commercial Moab Workload Manager to improve overall utilization, scheduling and administration on a cluster.

The TORQUE community has extended the original PBS to extend scalability, fault tolerance, and functionality. Contributors include NCSA, OSC, USC, the US DOE, Sandia, PNNL, UB, TeraGrid, and other HPC organizations. As of June 2018, TORQUE is no longer open-source even though previously it was described by its developers as open-source software,[1] using the OpenPBS version 2.3 license[2] and as non-free software by the Debian Free Software Guidelines[4] due to license issues.

TORQUE
Developer(s)Adaptive Computing
Initial release2003 (2003)
Stable release
6.1.2 / 14 February 2018 (2018-02-14)
Written inANSI C
Operating systemUnix-like
Size5 MB
Available inEnglish
TypeDistributed resource manager
LicenseProprietary License (As of June 2018) [1], OpenPBS version 2.3[2][3] (non-free in DFSG[4]), or TORQUE v2.5+ Software License v1.1
Websiteadaptivecomputing.com/products/torque/ [8]

Feature set

TORQUE provides enhancements over standard OpenPBS in the following areas:

  • Fault Tolerance Additional failure conditions checked/handled Node health check script support

  • Scheduling Interface Extended query interface providing the scheduler with additional and more accurate information Extended control interface allowing the scheduler increased control over job behavior and attributes Allows the collection of statistics for completed jobs

  • Scalability Significantly improved server to MOM communication model Ability to handle larger clusters (over 15 TF/2,500 processors) Ability to handle larger jobs (over 2000 processors) Ability to support larger server messages

  • Usability Extensive logging additions More human readable logging (i.e. no more 'error 15038 on command 42')

See also

  • Job scheduler § Batch queuing for HPC clusters

  • Beowulf cluster

  • Maui Cluster Scheduler

  • Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR)

  • Slurm Workload Manager

  • Univa Grid Engine

References

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Citation Linkwww.adaptivecomputing.com"Closed Source Software License". Adaptive Computing, Inc. 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
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Citation Linkwww.webcitation.orgVeridian Information Solutions, Inc. (2000). "OpenPBS (Portable Batch System) v2.3 Software License". Cluster Resources, Inc. Archived from the original on 2011-07-31. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
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Citation Linkwww.webcitation.org"The DFSG and Software Licenses - Licenses that are DFSG-incompatible". Debian. 2011-03-27. Archived from the original on 2011-07-31. Retrieved 2011-07-31.
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Citation Linkdoi.acm.orgTORQUE resource manager, Garrick Staples, SC '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing, ISBN 0-7695-2700-0
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Citation Linkadaptivecomputing.comOfficial website
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Citation Linkwww.pbsworks.comOpenPBS home page
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