AVAIL

The avail function is provided as conversion aid for scheduler written for early versions of PBS. The function uses pbs_rescquery.

   answer = pbs.avail(c, resource)

In

c::

Connection id

resource::

Rescource is a single 'node=specification' specification, eg: "nodes=1:infiband"

Out

answer::

There are three possible return values:

yes

the nodes to satisify the specification are currently available

no

The nodes are currently unavailable

never

The specification could never be satified

Example

#!/usr/bin/env python

c = pbs.pbs_connect(pbs.pbs_default())

answer = pbs.avail(c, "nodes=1")
print answer