Vico - a simple job queue using 'tmux'.

'vico' means 'queue' in Esperanto.

Requirements

• tmux

Installation

1. Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/enp1s0/vico.git

2. Set $PATH

export PATH=/path/to/vico/bin:$PATH

Usage

Submit a job

qsub job.sh

Check job status

qstat

Then you can see a list of jobs. Top of it is a running one and the others are waiting ones.

vico-18: 1 windows (created Tue Dec 29 00:07:41 2020)
vico-19: 1 windows (created Tue Dec 29 00:07:42 2020)
vico-20: 1 windows (created Tue Dec 29 00:07:43 2020)

Delete a job

qdel vico-N

or just

qdel N

And it is possible to delete a job which is a head of the job queue.

qdel head

Configuration

Job prologue and epilogue

You can execute any commands before and after a job by editing scripts/prologue.sh and scripts/epilogue.sh.

Note

This script uses $HOME/.vico_state to manage jobs. It is created at the first job submitting. Please do not remove this file. By default, the start and end time of jobs are recorded in this file.

Environment variables

• VICO_JOB_ID : Job ID
• VICO_JOB_NAME : Job name