Maui Cluster Scheduler is a

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for use on clusters and

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s initially developed by Cluster Resources, Inc. Maui is capable of supporting multiple scheduling policies, dynamic priorities, reservations, and fairshare capabilities. It improves the manageability and efficiency of machines ranging from clusters of a few processors to multi-teraflops supercomputers. Maui is available for use and modification for non-commercial usage.

Development and support

Maui was most heavily developed during the mid-90s. Development slowed into the 2000s, although an active community around the usage of Maui still exists. Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. (now Adaptive Computing) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U.S. Department of Energy,

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, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah (CHPC),

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(OSC),

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(USC),

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, NCSA, and many others. It may be downloaded, modified and redistributed. Maui Cluster Scheduler is currently maintained and supported by

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, although most new development has come to a standstill. A next-generation non-open-source scheduler is part of the

Moab Cluster Suite Maui Cluster Scheduler is a job scheduler for use on clusters and supercomputers initially developed by Cluster Resources, Inc. Maui is capable of supporting multiple scheduling policies, dynamic priorities, reservations, and fairshare capabi ...

and borrows many of the same concepts found in Maui. Maui's developers state that the licence satisfies some definitions of

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and that it is not available for commercial usage. Adaptive Computing's Maui project is not associated with the

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, which was developed as a project on the

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site independent of the original Maui scheduler, under the

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. The Molokini Edition's most recent release was in 2005.

References

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External links

Maui Cluster Scheduler
- SourceForge page Job scheduling

Development and support

See also

References

External links