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[Documentation] Collect similar tools

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
hpc, python
Domain
documentation, hpc

Research direction

No target file, documentation page, or entry point is named. Review the repository's existing documentation structure and the listed tools to determine where this comparison belongs. Done means the relevant tools are documented consistently in an appropriate project location.

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Description

documentation

Submission of Python functions in the high performance computing context:

  • facebookincubator/submitit - using the same executor syntax but only supports submitting from the head node
  • parsl - similar to dask based on spawning workers to execute tasks
  • jobflow - worker based
  • psij-python - just a interface to the queuing system like pysqa
  • taskblaster - similar to jobflow just more command line oriented

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Dominant language
Python
Stars
77
Forks
7
Avg merge
10h 32m
Merged PRs (30d)
12

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