Portable Batch System

PBS Professional software optimizes job scheduling and workload management in high-performance computing (HPC) environments – clusters, clouds, and supercomputers – improving system efficiency and people’s productivity. Built by HPC people for HPC people, PBS Professional is fast, scalable, secure, and resilient, and supports all modern infrastructure, middleware, and applications.

Portable Batch System (PBS) is the name of computer software that performs job scheduling. Its primary task is to allocate computational tasks, i.e., batch jobs, among the available computing resources. The following versions of PBS are currently available:

OpenPBS

TORQUE

PBS Professional (PBS Pro)

The PBS allows to perform three actions:

Add a job to the queue;

Remove a job from the queue; and

See where is your job is in the queue (status).