Job scheduling system

There are four major job schedulers in the HPC field.

• LSF
• SLURM
• SGE
• PBS

Scheduler based on LSF (Load Sharing Facility): Spectrum LSF, PlatformLSF, OpenLava.

SLURM (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management), the completely pure open-source job scheduler.

Scheduler based on SGE (Sun Grid Engine): UGE (Univa Grid Engine), SGE (Son of Grid Engine). History

Scheduler based on PBS (Portable Batch System): OpenPBS, PBS Pro, Moab/Torque.