General features of PBS Pro and ALPS are described in Section General information about the batch system, examples of batch job scripts for parallel jobs are given in Section Parallel batch jobs (also an example of submitting a job in the hold state) and how to get information about jobs and system is described in Section Monitoring and displaying job and system status.
PBS Pro commands
The following table shows PBS Pro commands and and what they do.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| qsub | Submit a job |
| qstat | Show status of batch jobs |
| cqstat | Show status of batch jobs correcting some errors shown by qstat -a (the filter script of qstat -f) |
| qdel | Delete a job |
| qalter | Alter a job's attributes |
| qhold | Place a hold on a job to keep it from being scheduled for running |
| qmove | Move a job to a different queue or server |
| qmsg | Append a message to the output of an executing job |
| qrerun | Terminate an executing job and return it to a queue |
| qrls | Remove a hold from a job |
| qselect | Obtain a list of jobs that meet certain criteria |
| qsig | Send a signal to an existing job |
| xpbs | GUI front to PBS commands |
Usage and options of the most important of these commands are described on separate pages:
- Submitting jobs: qsub
- Status of jobs, queues and batch server: qstat
- Deleting jobs: qdel
- Monitoring and displaying job and system status (qstat and others)
Further information
See the following man pages: pbs(1B), qalter(1B), qdel(1B), qhold(1B), qmove(1B), qmsg(1B), qrerun(1B), qrls(1B), qselect(1B), qsig(1B), qsub(1B), xpbs(1B) and the PBS User Guide for more information. Starting with qsub(1B), you can find all other available PBS man pages by following references in the "SEE ALSO" section.
ALPS commands
| Command | Descriptio |
|---|---|
| aprun | Launches an application |
| apkill | Sends a signal to a specified application |
| apstat | Provides status information for systems applications |
| cnselect | Returns a list of compute nodes based on user-specified compute node attributes |
Usage and options of the most important of these commands are described on separate pages:
Further information
See the following man pages: intro_alps(1) or alps(1), aprun(1), apkill(1), apstat(1), cnselect(1). The last man page is not yet available online.