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<url>http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nqs/
<title>Generic NQS
<title_line>Supports queueing and routing of processes on single compute servers and workstation clusters
<abstract>
Previously developed at the University of Sheffield, Generic NQS is established
as one of the world's leading freely-available batch processing systems, 
featuring very wide availability, full support for individual platforms, 
cluster-wide dynamic scheduling, ease of installation, and highly-respected 
support.

Generic NQS provides full support of both batch and device requests. Here a 
batch request is defined as a shell script containing commands not 
requiring the direct services of some physical device. In contrast, a device 
request is defined as a set of independent instructions requiring the direct 
services of a specific device for execution (e.g. a line printer request). 
Generic NQS supports the queueing and routing of batch and device 
requests throughout the network of machines running NQS. 
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<contact>nqs-support@mailbase.ac.uk
<environment>
Language: ANSI C - KnR compiles will not suffice!

Operating systems: AIX 3,4; Digital UNIX;Dynix/Ptx; Fujitsu UPX/M; HPUX 8,9,10;
IRIX 5,6; Linux; NCR UNIX; Solaris 2; SunOS 4; ULTRIX; UNICOS;
Generic SYSVr4 and BSD4.3 ports as well.

Includes SMP support for Digital UNIX & IRIX.  Full native 64-bit support
for IRIX 6 (some commercial vendors merely run IRIX 5 binaries on IRIX 6).
Supports all resources supported by underlying platforms (some commercial
vendors merely support a common subset).
<restrictions>Released under v2 of GNU GPL.
<keywords>resource allocation; job scheduling; workstation cluster
<category>dpt
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