Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.large,comp.parallel,comp.parallel.pvm
From: norbert@iit.com (Norbert Juffa)
Subject: Please relate experience with NQS, DNQS, DQS, Monsanto-NQS
Organization: Integrated Information Technology Inc.
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 20:35:58 GMT
Message-ID: <1994Dec20.204957.27222@iit.com>


Some days ago I asked on the net about software that supports splitting a 
large program across a network of SUN workstations. Since I already managed 
to break up the large programs into many small jobs, I was looking for 
software that would enable me to submit all these jobs as a batch job to all 
the machines in the network. That software should automatically deal with 
network problems and machines going down, allow the user to add and delete 
jobs from/to the submit queue, allow scheduling of jobs to certain machines
and allow monitoring the work in progress. 

I received pointers to the freely available software packages NQS and DQS,
which seem to be doing what I am looking for. I did an archie search on NQS 
and DQS and found that there seem to be four different programs out there, 
namely NQS, Monsanto-NQS, DNQS, and DQS. The latest versions of these software
packages that I could find are:

nqs_2.5.tar.gz             retrieved from lune.csc.liv.ac.uk
                           in /hpux9/Networking
                           file dated Dec 16, 1993
dqns_1.11.tar.Z            retrieved from ftp.physics.mcgill.ca
                           in /pub/Dnqs
                           file dated May 5, 1993
Monsanto_NQS.3.36.5.tar.gz retrieved from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
                           in /pub/linux/system/Network/distrib/qs/Monsanto-NQS
                           file dated Dec 16, 1994
DQS_3_1_1.tar.gz           retrieved from gundel.zdv.uni-mainz.de
                           directory /pub/batch/dqs
                           file dated Aug 29, 1994

I haven't had the time yet to compare the packages with each other. Any info
from people who have experience with one or more of these packages is highly
appreciated. Please send email to norbert@iit.com if you know anything about
the merits of these programs. I will post a summary of any responses I get to
comp.unix.misc. If you send email and don't want it to be included in the
summary, please indicate so. Thanks for your help in advance.

-- Norbert Juffa (norbert@iit.com)




