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Batch system
PBS: Portable Batch System (OpenPBS or PBS Pro)
One server on each of the computing nodes and one on the master node
Queues jobs, takes care of job startup and job shutdown.
Prologue and epilogue scripts, file stage in and file stage out
Qsub and qdel commands
Keeps some track of non-functioning compute nodes
Has an open interface to external job schedulers