ANNOUCING GENERIC NQS 3.50.0
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	Document Code : GNQS-0016
	Author	      : Stuart Herbert
	Date	      : 5th June, 1996


	     UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD RELEASES GENERIC NQS 3.50.0

	New version of Generic NQS brings cluster-wide dynamic scheduling,
	SMP support for Digital UNIX, prologue/epilogue scripting, support
	for new platforms (HP-UX 10 and Dynix 4), ease of installation,
	and plenty of bug fixes.

	New Release
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	The culmination of 20 months of work at the University of Sheffield
	funded by JISC grant NTI/48.2, and by private contributors via the
	Internet, Generic NQS 3.50.0 features significant new features, and
	important changes to existing features.
	
	o  Cluster-wide dynamic scheduling extends Generic NQS's existing
	   dynamic scheduling to support pipe queue complexes.  Put all of
	   your scheduler's pipe queues into a complex, specify a user limit
	   for the complex, and Generic NQS will do the rest to ensure that
	   over-demanding users do not hog the system.
	   
	o  Generic NQS was (to the best of my knowledge) the first batch
	   processing system to support processor sets on IRIX.  Now, Generic
	   NQS extents that support to include processor sets on Digital
	   UNIX.  In addition, we are tracking the development of Linux/SMP,
	   and will support processor sets on Linux if ever implemented.
	   
	o  You can now use prologue and epilogue scripts to run system-specifc
	   commands immediately before, and immediately after, a script is
	   executed.  One use of this is to call mpadmin(1) to schedule a job
	   on a specific process ...
	   
	o  Generic NQS now compiles and runs on HP-UX v10, and Dynix/Ptx v4.
	
	o  Generic NQS features new SETUP software to talk you through
	   configuring, compiling, and installing Generic NQS onto your
	   computer.
	   
	o  Other important changes include the removal of the NQS logdaemon;
	   Generic NQS now uses syslogd.
	   
	o  Important bugs fixed include jobs no longer get stuck in the
	   arrive state, transaction handling problems removed,
	   kernel-supported resource limits now correctly supported on all
	   platforms, and TMPDIR support fixed.
	
	About
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	Generic NQS is firmly established as one of the world's leading
	freely-available batch processing systems for UNIX-like operating
	systems, with over 100 installations world-wide, and over 20 with the
	UK HE sector.  Released under version 2 of the GNU General Public
	License, Generic NQS supports one of the widest ranges of platforms,
	and is the only freely-available batch processing system to make use
	of extra scheduling capabilities of IRIX and Digital UNIX.
	
	Generic NQS is descended from NASA's original COSMIC NQS, and was
	previously maintained by the Monsanto Company, and by the University
	of Sheffield.  As of July, 1996, maintenance of Generic NQS will
	revent back into the hands of private individuals.

	Availability
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	Generic NQS 3.50.0 source code is available free of charge, and
	is known to compile on the following platforms :

		AIX 3 & 4, Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1), Dynix, Fujitsu,
		HP-UX 8,9 & 10, IRIX 5 & 6, Linux, NCR UNIX, Solaris 2.x,
		SunOS 4, ULTRIX, UNICOS

	For More Information
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	Please visit our World-Wide Web site, at
	
		http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nqs

	A detailed list of changes is available from :
	
		http://www.shef.ac.uk/~nqs/Manuals/Papers/GNQS/GNQS0009/