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 Update at SC11
Download the TORQUE Update Event presentation by Ken Nielsen and David Beers
Read the TORQUE 4.0 Beta Announcement
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FEATURE SET
- 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')
STATUS
We are continuing to collect community patches to incorporate into the TORQUE distribution. We are also focusing on further functionality and fault tolerance enhancements extending numerous changes already made.
TORQUE is freely available for download from www.AdaptiveComputing.com. Adaptive Computing is the custodian of the TORQUE open-source project and is actively developing the code base in cooperation with the TORQUE community to provide state-of-the-art resource and job management. TORQUE users may subscribe to TORQUE’s mailing list or view the archive for questions, comments or patches. Please send mail to this list or send it directly to help@supercluster.org if you have any patches to contribute or if you are aware of any issues in the distribution.
*This product includes software developed by NASA Ames Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Veridian Information Solutions, Inc. Visit www.OpenPBS.org for OpenPBS software support, products, and information. TORQUE is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with Altair Grid Solutions, Inc. PBSPro, the commercial release of PBS, can be purchased through Altair.