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Distributed Computing with Python
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Distributed Computing with Python

by Francesco Pierfederici
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced
170 pages
3h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Running a Python job using PBS

The Portable Batch System (PBS) was developed for NASA in the beginning of the 90s. It now exists in three variants: OpenPBS, Torque, and PBS Pro. These are all forks of the original codebase, and have a very similar look and feel from the user perspective.

Here, we will look at PBS Pro (which is a commercial product by Altair Engineering and is available at http://www.pbsworks.com), but most of the features and directives we will mention should work on Torque and OpenPBS with just some minor differences. Also, in the interest of brevity, we will mostly concentrate on the differences between HTCondor (described earlier) and PBS.

Conceptually, PBS is just like HTCondor, a resource manager and job scheduling system. ...

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