Dear Group,<br/>I am using a large cluster with Windows 2003 Server. We need to implement a complex queuing solution, consisting of multiple queues feeding into a single queue. I am not sure if this can be easily done. (My Linux colleague assures me that you can have placeholder queues in PBS/Torgque).  Is there a way a straightfoward way to do this using the windows job submission system? Basically I want each user of our system to have their own FIFO queue (so that each user only gets 1 job at time processed) and then lots of users in a single FIFI queue (so each user gets treated equally). The reason for this is to stop one user dominating the system with mulitple jobs. <br/><br/>Even though tasks can be made to wait on other tasks, I think that the only way to implement this system is to have a complex program that waits to see if a job is ready to run. And then  have the main task wait on this program. <br/>Much thanks.<br/>Simon Michnowicz<br/>Ludwig Insitute of Cancer Research© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Fri, 22 May 2009 20:31:22 Ze602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2bhttp://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcsched/thread/e602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2b#e602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2bhttp://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcsched/thread/e602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2b#e602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2bSimon Michnowiczhttp://social.microsoft.com/Profile/en-US/?user=Simon%20MichnowiczDear Group,<br/>I am using a large cluster with Windows 2003 Server. We need to implement a complex queuing solution, consisting of multiple queues feeding into a single queue. I am not sure if this can be easily done. (My Linux colleague assures me that you can have placeholder queues in PBS/Torgque).  Is there a way a straightfoward way to do this using the windows job submission system? Basically I want each user of our system to have their own FIFO queue (so that each user only gets 1 job at time processed) and then lots of users in a single FIFI queue (so each user gets treated equally). The reason for this is to stop one user dominating the system with mulitple jobs. <br/><br/>Even though tasks can be made to wait on other tasks, I think that the only way to implement this system is to have a complex program that waits to see if a job is ready to run. And then  have the main task wait on this program. <br/>Much thanks.<br/>Simon Michnowicz<br/>Ludwig Insitute of Cancer ResearchThu, 14 May 2009 01:11:56 Z2009-05-14T01:11:56Zhttp://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcsched/thread/e602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2b#4474e08e-9e85-4d5c-a12c-9583e3338fb9http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowshpcsched/thread/e602b0c6-5d5d-4d47-963a-c435e5e09a2b#4474e08e-9e85-4d5c-a12c-9583e3338fb9Josh Barnardhttp://social.microsoft.com/Profile/en-US/?user=Josh%20Barnard<p>Sadly, there's no easy way of doing this today.  You might consider using Submission Filters to plug-in a sligthly differnet custom solution; for example you can set the priority of an incoming job to be very low if that user already has a running job, or very high if they do not.<br/><br/>We hope to provide some functionality like this in a future release.<br/><br/>Josh</p><hr class="sig">-JoshTue, 19 May 2009 21:12:34 Z2009-05-19T21:12:34Z