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Questions about Torque

Short answers, pulled from the story.

When did Garrick Staples present the Terascale Open-source Resource and Queue Manager at the ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing?

Garrick Staples presented the software in 2006. This presentation occurred during the ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing.

What licensing conflict caused TORQUE to lose its open-source designation in June 2018?

TORQUE lost its open-source designation because it used the OpenPBS version 2.3 license. The Debian Free Software Guidelines classified the program as non-free due to this specific license type.

Which organizations contributed development efforts or funding to expand the reach of TORQUE?

NCSA, Sandia National Laboratories, USC, OSC, PNNL, and UB all contributed code improvements or testing infrastructure. The US Department of Energy provided funding initiatives that accelerated adoption across universities.

How do organizations pair TORQUE with other schedulers for enhanced features?

Organizations can pair TORQUE with the non-commercial Maui Cluster Scheduler for free optimization options. Commercial entities often choose the Moab Workload Manager to optimize large-scale environments.

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