A mixed cluster support for PBS Pro

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• Link to issue: <issue link if available>
• Link to pull request: <https://github.com/PBSPro/pbspro/pull/1219>

Overview

• Customers are looking for interoperability, i.e. a mixed cluster of windows and Linux compute nodes.
• Less maintenance for windows special code in Server/Sched/Comm and 3rd parties.
• Windows customers will get additional PBS features automatically.

System Architecture Diagram

Change's done so far:

• PBS_RSHD/pbs_rcp is replaced with OpenSSH sshd/scp for file transfers.
• Enabled Zlib library to PBS_MOM to understand compressed TPP messages from Linux server.
• Build POC customized RPM & MSI packages.

Demo: 

My setup details:

• Host (BLRLAP796) – Windows 10   –  CMDS & MoM1
• Guest VM (winvm) – Windows 10  –  CMDS & MoM 2
• Guest VM (physics) – GNU/Linux   –  Server/Sched/Comm/MoM3

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