Additional Commands

pbsstatus

pbsstatus is a quick view of your cluster’s utilization

$> pbsstatus

NP Utilization      Cluster Load    Avail CPU       Used CPU        Total CPU       Running Jobs
        28.12%            20.20%           23              9               32                  9

qpeek

qpeek is a a bit of a rewrite for the qpeek perl script that is a little more robust

Qsub a simple job

$> cat <<EOF | qsub -l nodes=1,walltime=00:01:00
while sleep 2
do
    echo "HI"
done
EOF
1.host.example.com

Cat the output of the job

$> qpeek 1.host.example.com
HI
HI
HI

Tail the output of the job in real-time

$> qpeek --operation follow 1.host.example.com
HI
HI
HI