Josef “Jeff” Sipek

For a couple of years now, I wished that I could have a mini-batch system on my computers that’d let me submit jobs and they’d execute when the resources became available. This would let me queue up large amount of work and it’d eventually all get processed. I even tried to hack up a dumb little Python script that’d loop over a file executing no more than one per core.

Then, yesterday, I stumbled across Task Spooler. It’s exactly what I was looking for! It lets me queue jobs, supports dependencies between jobs, etc.

I’m hoping to experiment with it in the next couple of days. I’ll let you know how it turns out.