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Generic NQS v3.40.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Oct 1 06:44:33 1995
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 18:36:34 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: S.Herbert@sheffield.ac.uk (S L Herbert)
Subject: Generic NQS v3.40.0
Organization: Sheffield University, UK
Keywords: Batch Cluster Workstations Compute-Servers NQS Generic-NQS Monsanto-NQS
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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NEW RELEASE OF FREELY AVAILABLE BATCH SYSTEM
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Generic NQS v3.40.0 is now available from :
ftp://ftp.shef.ac.uk/pub/uni/projects/nqs/latest/Generic-NQS.tar.gz
This is mirrored in the US, at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/distrib/nqs/
latest/Generic-NQS.tar.gz
(It may take a few days to appear on the mirror site).
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Generic NQS is a freely-available (GPL'd) batch processing system available
for the following platforms :
AIX 3 & 4
Fujitsu UXP/M
HP-UX 8 & 9 (+ experimental support for HP-UX 10)
IRIX 5 & 6
Linux/ELF
NCR UNIX
OSF/1
Solaris 2.x
ULTRIX
UNICOS 8
Generic NQS is the continuing development of Monsanto-NQS, a popular batch
processing system developed from the original COSMIC NQS source code.
Included below are the README and CHANGES files from this release.
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README : Generic NQS
Academic Computing Services
The University of Sheffield
Stuart Herbert
(S.Herbert@sheffield.ac.uk)
Abstract :
Under grant NTI/48.2 from the New Technologies Sub Committee (NTSC)
of JISC, the University of Sheffield is maintaining a freely-available
version of the Network Queueing System (NQS), the de facto standard
batch processing system for the UNIX operating system.
This document is intended to be read first by anyone wishing to
compile, install, and use Generic NQS. It provides general
information about Generic NQS, and plenty of pointers to other
sources of information.
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Contents
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1 Quick Start
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1.1 Getting Started
For full instructions on installing, and configuring Generic NQS,
please see the `INSTALL' document, included with the Generic NQS
source code. A HTML version is available from :
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nqs/Product/GNQS/v3.4x/Install/
If you encounter any problems, please see the `PROBLEMS' and
`PROBLEMS.old' documents, supplied with the source code - they
contain full lists of known problems with Generic NQS, and
solutions/work-arounds where available.
Finally, please read the rest of this README when you can spare the
time. Even if you don't read anything else, please read the section
on electronic mailing lists, and take the time to subscribe to them.
Best regards,
Stu
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4 FTP Sites
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4.1 Generic NQS Source Code
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4.1.1 Home Site
The official home site of Generic NQS is :
> ftp://ftp.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nqs/
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4.1.2 Mirror Sites
This is mirrored at the following sites :
> ftp://myrddraal.shef.ac.uk/pub/NQS/
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/distrib/nqs/
If ftp.shef.ac.uk is unavailable, try myrddraal - it's my workstation,
so it tends to be up even when everything else isn't.
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5 World-Wide Web Pages
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5.1 Generic NQS
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5.1.1 Home Page
The official home page of Generic NQS is :
> http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/nqs/
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5.1.2 Mirrors
This is mirrored at the following sites :
> http://myrddraal.shef.ac.uk/Projects/NQS/
I'm interested in finding a site in North America which is prepared
to mirror my Web pages ...
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