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Is there a lightweight queue manager for Kubuntu? Something like torque, but as I understand it - torque works for clusters only - while I want the similar thing for my laptop.

The problem is - I'd like to start a job only if the previous jobs have finished. So I need a program which will queue the jobs, and run the next one once the previous have finished.

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  • What kind of jobs you want to run? Torque is a system to run hpc tasks so it is used in clusters, but i think you can configure it in a single machine. Instead of having a server and N "worker" machines, your laptop will be the server and a worker. – Salem Jul 07 '12 at 19:40
  • Yeah - I tried to find some guides how to set up torque to use in a single laptop - but found none. – Adobe Jul 10 '12 at 11:33
  • Can you explain what kinds of "jobs" you want to run? – ish Jul 12 '12 at 02:29
  • @Adobe There's an article at [Ubuntu Wiki](http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1512061) explaining how to setup Torque in a single machine. It's for ubuntu 10.04 but should work in more recent versions. – Salem Jul 12 '12 at 15:58
  • @izx: numerically intensive jobs (simple molecular dynamics simulations). – Adobe Jul 12 '12 at 16:13
  • Thanks. Is each job a command-line invocation, or is there a GUI involved somewhere? – ish Jul 12 '12 at 16:17
  • @izx: Oh - that's what You meant. It's a CLI alright. – Adobe Jul 12 '12 at 17:12

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You could use Redis, which is lightweight and simple. I would refer you to this question on StackOverflow, which contains a few good links.

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