What are the Grid Engine Queues in HPCVL system?
Grid Engine uses the notion of a queue to distinguish between the different different types of jobs and the different components of the HPCVL cluster. Grid Engine queues can allow execution of many jobs concurrently, and Grid Engine tries to start new jobs in the queue that is most suitable and least loaded. Note, that a job is always associated with its queue, and depends on the status of this queue, but, users do not need to submit jobs directly to a queue. You only need to specify the requirement profile of the job, which includes memory, available software and type of job (parallel or not, MPI,…). Although you don’t submit jobs directly to a queue you still need to know which queue is handling your job and what are the characteristics of this queue. On the HPCVL system, we have presently five different queues that are used for different purposes.
