PBS (Portable Batch System) Commands on Torque

There are some PBS Commands that you can use for your customised PBS templates and scripts. Note: # Remarks: # A line beginning with # is a comments; # A line beginning with #PBS is a pbs command; # Case sensitive. Job Name (Default)

#PBS -N jobname

Specifies the number of nodes (nodes=N) and the number of processors per node (ppn=M) that the job should use

#PBS -l nodes=2:ppn=8

Specifies the maximum amount of physical memory used by any process in the job.

#PBS -l pmem=4gb

Specifies maximum walltime (real time, not CPU time)

#PBS -l walltime=24:00:00

Queue Name (If default is used, there is no need to specify)

#PBS -q fastqueue

Group account (for example, g12345) to be charged

#PBS -W group_list=g12345

Put both normal output and error output into the same output file.

#PBS -j oe

Send me an email when the job begins,end and abort

#PBS -m bea
#PBS -M mymail@mydomain.com

Export all my environment variables to the job

#PBS -V

Rerun this job if it fails

#PBS -r y