Improve Throughput of Jobs

Improve job throughput by allowing the scheduler to run asynchronously.

Improve job throughput by allowing the scheduler to run asynchronously, so it does not wait for each job to be accepted by the MoM, which means it also does not wait for an execjob_begin hook to finish. For short jobs, this can give you better scheduling performance. It also allows jobs that were changed to run in the same scheduling cycle where they were changed.
  1. Click the Configure tab.
  2. Choose the HPC to configure.

    Choose an HPC
    Figure 1. Choose an HPC
  3. Click Scheduling from the PBS Professional menu located on the left-hand side of the web page.
  4. Click located to the right of High-Throughput Mode.
  5. For High-Throughput Mode, choose one of the following options:
    • Enable this option to so that the scheduler runs asynchronously and faster.
    • Disable this option so that the scheduler does not run asynchronously.
  6. Click to save the change.