Integrate Gold with your Resource Management System

Now you are ready to run some jobs. Before doing so you will need to integrate Gold with your Resource Management System (see Integrating with the Resource Management System).

Although the quotation, reservation, and charge steps will most likely be invoked automatically by your resource management system, it is useful to understand their effects by invoking them manually.

Now we'll simulate the lifecycle of a job.

Example 8. Assume the job has the following characteristics:

Job Id:               PBS.1234.0
Job Name:             heavywater
User Name:            amy
Project Name:         chemistry
Machine Name:         colony
Requested Processors: 16
Estimated WallClock:  3600 seconds
Actual WallClock:     1234 seconds