Chapter 1: Overview provides the details for installation and initialization, advanced configuration options, and (optional) qmgr option necessary to get the system up and running. System testing is also covered.
Chapter 2: Submitting and managing jobs covers different actions applicable to jobs. The first section details how to submit a job and request resources (nodes, software licenses, and so forth), and provides several examples. Other actions include monitoring, canceling, preemption, and keeping completed jobs.
Chapter 3: Managing nodes covers administrator tasks relating to nodes, which includes the following: adding nodes, changing node properties, and identifying state. Also an explanation of how to configure restricted user access to nodes is covered in Host security.
Chapter 4: Setting server policies details server-side configurations of queue and high availability.
Chapter 5: Integrating schedulers for TORQUE offers information about using the native scheduler versus an advanced scheduler.
Chapter 6: Configuring data management deals with issues of data management. For non-network file systems, SCP setup details setting up SSH keys and nodes to automate transferring data. NFS and other networked filesystems covers configuration for these file systems. This chapter also addresses the use of file staging using the the stagein and stageout directives of the qsub command.
Chapter 7: MPI (Message Passing Interface) support offers details supporting MPI.
Chapter 8: Resources covers configuration, utilization, and states of resources.
Chapter 9: Accounting records explains how jobs are tracked by TORQUE for accounting purposes.
Chapter 10: Job logging explains how to enable job logs that contain information for completed jobs.
Chapter 11: Troubleshooting is a guide that offers help with general problems. It includes FAQ and instructions for how to set up and use compute node checks. It also explains how to debug TORQUE.
The appendices provide tables of commands, parameters, configuration options, error codes, the Quick Start Guide, and so forth.
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