A Short Survey of Commercial Cluster Batch Schedulers

Abstract

As high performance computing clusters are getting cheaper, they become more accessible. The various clusters are running a host of workload management software suites, which are getting more complex and offer cluster administrators numerous features, scheduling policies, job prioritization schemes, etc. In this paper we survey some of the common commercial workload managers on the market, covering their main features — specifically the scheduling policies and algorithms they support, their priority and queueing mechanisms, focusing on their default settings.