Other Similar Products

The LSF software is a very complete offering and was chosen by Sun for that reason: but it is not the only batch system product available. Other products are listed below.

Distributed Queuing System

The Distributed Queuing System (DQS), from Florida State University is available in the public domain. The set of system resources it understands includes:

  • Host (by name)

  • System architecture

  • Operating system type

  • Amount of memory

  • CPU usage

Users can start xterm sessions via interactive queues and some built-in support for PVM jobs is available. Limited high availability features are included since the master scheduler cannot migrate to another host.

Network Queuing System

Network Queuing System (NQS) is public domain software that ...

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