PCS - Production Control System <author> <version> <abstract> The Production Control System (PCS) allocates resources for the UNIX-based production systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). PCS automates access and rate-of-delivery to a customer's users within pre-set customer budgets and delivers resources to all production managed by the system. <description><url>http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/pcs.html</url> <reference><url></url> <contact>Bob Wood / bwood@llnl.gov <keywords>resource allocation <category>dpt <publication-date> <environment>UNICOS, Solaris 2.3, AIX 3.2.5 <method> <application>resource accounting, resource allocation control <comments> The LC staff is dramatically extending the PCS to support massively parallel processing (MPP) architectures and clustered machines. </urc>