The anthill cluster currently uses the old Sun Grid Engine (SGE) as its scheduler. However, since Oracle bought Sun they have made it a closed source product, and so we will likely be switching to the Open Grid Scheduler (http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/). OGS is a fork of SGE, and has many features in common. Here is a website that has a lot of details about SGE and will be updated towards OGS in the future: http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/howto/. In the read more I provide some examples of common commands that we use with the SGE.

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