About
Job list view displays a list of jobs from your job manager.
Definitions
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Job Manager
Job Scheduler -
A third-party tool which provides the management of computing workload in a distributed environment.
Typical functions of a Job Scheduler include: load balancing across clusters of machines, batch queue management, and resource monitoring.
EnginFrame currently supports the de-facto standard Load Sharing Facility from Platform Computing, Grid Engine from Sun Microsystems, and the Globus toolkit from Open Source community. - Batch Job
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A single execution of a third party tool, or self-developed program, which usually consumes computing resources,
but does not require human intervention to be completed.
In EnginFrame environments, it is usually submitted to a Job Scheduler. - InteractiveJob
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A single execution of a third party tool, or self-developed program, which requires human intervention to get the work done.
Interaction may occur within a terminal emulator window, or with the application proprietary GUI.
In EnginFrame environments, an Interactive Job may be submitted to a Job Scheduler, directly to an Operating System, or to Application Servers. - Job ID
- An unique identifier for the job as assigned by the Job Manager
- Job Project
- The project the job was submitted from.
- Job Time
- The job submission time.
- Job Status
- Current status for the job.
- Job Host
- The name of one or more hosts on which the job is executing. This field is empty if the job has not been dispatched.
- Job Queue
- The name of the queue on which the job was submitted.
- Job Name
- The job name as assigned by the user or the one assigned by the job manager.
- Job Owner
- The name of the user who submitted the job.
- Submission host
- The name of the host from which the job was submitted.
- ExecutionHost
- The name of one or more hosts on which the job is executing. This field is empty if the job has not been dispatched.
Job details
Provide some detailed informations about submitssion host, execution host and about job termination.
Job status
This field represents the current status of the job. Job status is also depicted by a coloured bar. In the case of a job array, different portions of the bar will represent the percentage of jobs in the different status.
- Pending
- The job is waiting to be executed
- Running
- The job is currently running
- Exit
- The job is not terminated successfully. It may have been aborted due to an error in its execution, or killed by its owner or administrator
- Done
- The job is terminated successfully.