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).
  • PBS Queue in Aqua


    CPU Group

    No. of CPU Nodes

    Queue Name

    No. of Cores

    Duration

    SMALL

    74

    small8

    1--8

    0 to 2 hours

    small20

    1--40

    0 to 48 hours

    small40

    1--40

    48 to 168 hours

    MEDIUM

    80

    medium

    21--80

    0 to 24 hours

    long

    41--80

    0 to 48 hours

    verylong

    41--80

    48 to 168 hours

    LARGE

    46

    large

    81--520

    0 to 48 hours

    GPU Group

    No. of GPU Nodes

    Queue Name

    No. of Cores

    Duration

    GPU

    12

    gpuq

    default

    0 to 48 hours