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What is PBS?

PBS (Portable Batch System) is a widely used workload management system, primarily in high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It allows users to submit, schedule, and manage computational jobs on clusters and supercomputers, optimizing resource utilization and ensuring fair access to computing resources.

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What other technologies are related to PBS?

PBS Competitor Technologies

Slurm

Slurm is a workload manager, like PBS, used for scheduling and managing jobs on large computing clusters.

mentioned alongside PBS in 13% (1k) of relevant job posts

LSF

LSF (Load Sharing Facility) is a workload management platform, similar to PBS, used for job scheduling and resource management in HPC environments.

mentioned alongside PBS in 14% (333) of relevant job posts

Torque

Torque is another workload manager, like PBS, for managing and scheduling jobs on HPC clusters. It is the open source version of PBS.

mentioned alongside PBS in 20% (152) of relevant job posts

Grid Engine

Grid Engine (also known as Sun Grid Engine or SGE) is a distributed resource management system that can be used for job scheduling, similar to PBS.

mentioned alongside PBS in 33% (82) of relevant job posts

SGE

SGE (Sun Grid Engine) is a distributed resource management system that can be used for job scheduling, similar to PBS. It's the same as Grid Engine.

mentioned alongside PBS in 19% (122) of relevant job posts

PBS Complementary Technologies

Lustre

Lustre is a parallel file system often used in HPC environments that can benefit from a workload manager like PBS for managing compute resources.

mentioned alongside PBS in 12% (393) of relevant job posts

GPFS

GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) is a high-performance file system often used in conjunction with workload managers like PBS in HPC environments.

mentioned alongside PBS in 9% (234) of relevant job posts

Moab

Moab is a workload management and scheduling system that can be used with PBS (or other resource managers) to provide advanced scheduling capabilities.

mentioned alongside PBS in 37% (58) of relevant job posts