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Foil 21 The Workings of Typical Cluster Management Software - 1

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
Step 1 - Job Description File
Produce some type of resource description file.
ASCII text file (produced using a normal text editor or with the aid of a GUI) which contains a set of keywords to be interpreted by the CMS.
The nature and number of keywords available depends on the CMS package, but will at least include the job name, the maximum runtime and the desired platform.

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