What is TORQUE/PBS?
TORQUE, also known by its historical name, Portable Batch System (PBS), is the resource manager on the Quarry system at Indiana University. Tools for job submission and management are available in /usr/local/bin; most tools have associated man pages. For detailed online information, such as user manuals and administrator guides, see the additional documentation below. TORQUE manages jobs that users submit to various queues on the system, each queue representing a group of resources with attributes necessary for the queue’s jobs. Commonly used TORQUE tools include qsub, for job submission; qstat, for monitoring the status of jobs; and qdel, for terminating jobs prior to completion. More detailed information regarding these commands and others is available below, or in the documentation mentioned above.
