Energy Simulation Scheduler

[billstron]

I've created a c based residential energy simulation that is run from the command line. It takes inputs from a couple of command files and command line options. It outputs data files to be read by matlab.

I run the simulation on a dedicated multicore workstation because they take a long time. Unfortunately, my problem is not parallizable. (I've tried with no speed improvements.) So in order to make better use of the multiple cores, I manually run multiple instances with different parameters in separate directories.

I would like to automate the multiple jobs with some kind of job scheduler. Ideally, I would be able to add other computers to the network and schedule jobs onto them from a single queue.

Does anyone have a suggestion for how to accomplish this simply? So far, the thing that makes the most sense is Ruby Queue http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/rq/, but I cant find very much documentation.

Thanks!
Bill

[billstron]

Bump! No one has tried this?

[InfernalNeutrino]

The lab I work at uses torque (clicky) to handle their batch jobs across multiple computers. I don't know if it is overkill for your purposes simply because my experience with it is entirely as an end-user - i.e. submitting jobs and waiting for the results . I don't use ubuntu any more, but IIRC there is a package with it somewhere in the repository. I also believe there are some howto's floating around the internet, but I never really looked at them because, again, I never actually had to set it up myself. Good luck!

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