How To Install torque-scheduler on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-scheduler
on CentOS 7.
What is torque-scheduler
TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations. This package holds the fifo C scheduler.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install torque-scheduler
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install torque-scheduler.
Install torque-scheduler on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install torque-scheduler
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install torque-scheduler
Install torque-scheduler on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install torque-scheduler
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install torque-scheduler
How To Uninstall torque-scheduler on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the torque-scheduler
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove torque-scheduler
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-scheduler
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.