A Comparison of Job Management Systems in Supporting HPC ClusterTools
Chansup Byun, Christopher J. Duncan, Stephanie Burks · 2000
This paper compares three most common job management systems and their workings with Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.1. Various aspects such as installation, customization, scheduling and resource control issues are discussed. The three chosen systems are: Load Sharing Facility (LSF), Portable Batch System (PBS) and COmputing in DIstributed Networked Environment (CODINE)/ Global Resource Director (GRD). We give a brief overview of each product but mainly focus on integrating these job management systems with Sun HPC ClusterTools. We provide useful guidelines to Sun HPC ClusterTools users when using job management systems with Sun HPC ClusterTools. We further demonstrate how to use the job management systems in support of commercial MPI applications with HPC ClusterTools.