Summary: sophisticated "batch"-job schedulers

From: Stefan Lerch (S12004@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1993 - 07:27:40 CDT


Many thanks to:
        - Bruce Kelly
        - Rick Brode
        - John Rowe
        - Anna Pluzhnikov
        - Michael Casteel
        - Carolyn Bucholtz
        - Tim Hunt
        - Kevin Sheehan
        - Brad Burdick
who helped me getting information about the following 'sophisticated "batch"-job schedulers for UNIX-Systems':

NQS ********************
Public Domain Software
available from COSMIC: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu
or by anonymous ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) packages/nqs/unix/monsanto-nqs-3.34.tar.Z
additional Information:
Early next year a replacement for NQS will be avialable which is Posix compliant called PBS (Portable Batch System).
NQS is currently the industry standard for UNIX local and remote batch processing. It is implemented through the TCP/IP protocols for communications among networked systems.

Load Balancer **********
Freedman Sharp and Associates Inc.
508 - 1011 - 1st Street SW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2R 1J2
PHONE (403) 264 4822 FAX (403) 264 0873
dan@fsa.ca

Autosys ****************
by System Architecture, Inc.
(Could not yet get more information on their address, because they just moved from Boston to Chicago!)
Reviews in 'Open Systems Today' and 'UNIX World' (Sorry, can't tell you the exact number because our copy of 'UNIX World' is mysteriously getting lost since a few months and I am the first to discover this!)
Chicago

Maestro ****************
by Unison Tymlabs
675 Almanor Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA
mac@unison.com
UK office: +44 582 462 424 (FAX +44 582 462 425)

(name still unknown) ***
by OpenVision
7133 Koll Center Parkway
Pleasanton, CA 94566
510-426-6400
wright@ov.com
+1-510-426-6400 or 800-223-OPEN (FAX: +1-510-426-6486)

If anybody is interested in some additional Information, please contact me and I will send him a summary on the products in mid-october, when I got an impression on them.

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