Grant PBS Manager and Operator privileges, specify whether users can query the status of jobs owned by another user, and specify
how usernames are treated across all machines in a HPC cluster.
Make changes to settings to modify the behavior of the Workload Manager
Scheduler.
Implement Backfilling
Implement backfilling to
keep resources from becoming idle when the top job cannot run.
Implement Starving Jobs
Track the amount of time a job has been waiting to
run and then mark the job as starving if this time has passed a specified
limit.
Implement Placement Sets
Use placement sets to improve task placement
by exposing information on system configuration and topology.
Implement Fairshare
Implement fairshare to ensure that jobs are run in the order of how deserving they are.
Configure Fuzzy Backfilling
Trade-off between scheduling cycle speed and the fineness of the granularity with which estimated start times are calculated.