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Unix Batch command, and running jobs in queues.
Hello all, I have a quick question. I work in a computational science laboratory, and we recently got a few mac pros to do molecular optimizations on. However, on our normal supercomputers, there are queue systems, mainly PBS.

Anyway, the macs obviously don't have PBS, but I've read about the "batch" and "at" commands in unix.

What I want to do is create a batch file, with multiple commands in it (basically multiple job submit commands), and I want the first one to run immediately, and the second one to run as soon as the first one finishes.

I know that there are different queues used with this command. Accessed by the "-q x" where x is the queue you want. So technically I want to have two different queues cause I want two different jobs to run at the same time.

So I've made a batch file containing four lines that submit four different jobs, like so...

g09 model1.txt &
g09 model2.txt &
g09 model3.txt &
g09 model4.txt &
CTRL-d

However, when I submit it, I don't see anything running when I use the top command, like I do when I just submit the job without using batch. The command I used to submit the batch file was.

batch -q b -f batch1.txt

And I'm in the folder that "batch1.txt" is in. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance...
 
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qorder

qorder(1B)								PBS								qorder(1B)

NAME

       qorder - exchange order of two pbs batch jobs in a queue.

SYNOPSIS

       qorder job_identifier job_identifier

DESCRIPTION

       To  order two jobs is to exchange the jobs positions in the queue or queues in which the jobs resides.  The two jobs must be located at the
       same server.  No attribute of the job, such as priority is changed.  The impact of interchanging the order with the queue(s)  is  dependent
       on local job scheduled policy, contact your systems administrator.

       A job in the running state cannot be reordered.

OPERANDS

       Both  operands  are  job_identifiers which specify the jobs to be exchanged.  The qorder command accepts two job_identifier operands of the
       form:
	   sequence_number[.server_name][@server]
       The server specification for the two jobs must agree as to the current location of the two job IDs.

STANDARD ERROR

       The qorder command will write diagnostic messages to standard error for each error occurrence.

EXIT STATUS

       Upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the qorder command, the exit status will be a value of zero.

       If the qorder command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero.

SEE ALSO

       qsub(1B), qmove(1B), pbs_orderjob(3B), pbs_movejob(3B)

Local																	qorder(1B)