PRUN

PRUN is a simple, easy-to-use, full-featured, stable and open source command-line software designed to be used for executing parallel tasks, as well as to be deployed as a cluster job scheduler on Linux and UNIX-like operating systems.

Features at a glance

PRUN is comprised of a job scheduling mechanism, job queueing mechanism, priority scheme, resource management and resource monitoring. It can be easily used to run long-term or short-term jobs across a cluster.

In addition, the software supports various programming languages for jobs, including Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and shell scripts, job priorities, DAG-jobs (also known as metajobs), automatic job rescheduling, and much more.

Getting started with PRUN

To install PRUN on your computer, which must be powered by a GNU/Linux operating system, you must first download the latest version of the program from Softoware or directly from the project’s website.

Save the file on your path, extract it, open a terminal window and navigate to the location of the extracted folder. Type the “cmake .” command, without quotes, to configure the program, then type the “make” command to compile it, without quotes, of course.

After a successful compilation, you will be able to install the program system wide by executing the “make install” command as root (system administrator) or with sudo, without quotes, of course.

Four executables will be outputted after compilation, so you will need to run each one of them to see what they do, or just read the official documentation of the project from either the source tarball or the official website.

Under the hood and availability

The software is written entirely in the C++ programming language and it’s distributed only as a universal sources archive, which has been successfully installed on various well known distributions of Linux, tested with both 32-bit and 64-bit instruction set architectures.

Requirements:

• Boost C++ Libraries