Portable Batch System (PBS)

The Portable Batch System (PBS) is a flexible batch software processing system developed at NASA Ames Research Center. It operates on networked, multi-platform UNIX environments, including heterogeneous clusters of workstations, supercomputers, and massively parallel systems.

Sites using PBS to manage their computing resources can expect many tangible benefits including:

• Increased utilization of costly resources
• Unified interface to all computing resources
• Reduced burden on system administrators freeing them to focus on other activities
• Enhanced understanding of computational requirements and user needs
• Expandability: PBS Professional supports dynamic distribution of production workloads across wide-area networks, and the logical organization of physically separate computing systems

Key Features

PBS provides users with a single coherent interface to all their computing resources. Other key features include:

• Portability: PBS complies with the POSIX 1003.2d standards for shells, utilities, and batch environments.
• Configurability: PBS is easy to configure to match the requirements of individual sites. The flexible job scheduler allows sites to establish their own scheduling policies for running jobs in both time-shared and space-shared (dedicated) environments.
• Adaptability: PBS is adaptable to a wide variety of administrative policies, and provides an extensible authentication and security model.
• Expandability: PBS supports the dynamic distribution of production workloads across wide-area networks, and the creation of a logical organization from physically separate entities.
• Flexibility: PBS supports both interactive and batch jobs.
• Usability: PBS provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for job submission, tracking, and administration.

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