TORQUE Resource Manager provides control over batch jobs and distributed computing resources. It is an advanced open-source product based on the original PBS project* and incorporates the best of both community and professional development. It incorporates significant advances in the areas of scalability, reliability, and functionality and is currently in use at tens of thousands of leading government, academic, and commercial sites throughout the world. TORQUE may be freely used, modified, and distributed under the constraints of the included license.

TORQUE can integrate with Moab Workload Manager to improve overall utilization, scheduling and administration on a cluster. Customers who purchase Moab family products also receive free support for TORQUE.

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')

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