
	Welcome !

OAR is a resource manager or (batch scheduler) for little to large clusters. It's suitable for productive plateforms and research experiments.

See INSTALL file for intall procedure.

See manpages and site (http://oar.imag.fr) for documentation. 

Some features of OAR :

- Batch and Interactive jobs
- Admission rules
- Walltime
- Matching of resources (job/node properties)
- Hold and resume jobs
- Multi-schedulers support (simple fifo and fifo with matching)
- Multi-queues with priority
- Best-effort queues (for exploiting idle resources)
- Check compute nodes before launching
- Epilogue/Prologue scripts
- No Daemon on compute nodes
- rsh and ssh as remote execution protocols (managed by Taktuk)
- Dynamic insertion/deletion of compute node
- Logging
- Backfiling
- First-Fit Scheduler with matching resource (very soon)
- Advance Reservation

Have a good time. 

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