Grid MP - a job scheduler and application provisioning platform.
This allows a webcron solution to operate on hosts that do not offer a job scheduler such as cron or a shell account.
Using a job scheduler can greatly improve the reliability and consistency of backups by removing part of the human element.
Unofficial job schedulers that can be used with the Globus Toolkit:
Windows has a job scheduler.
VisualCron is a job scheduler and automation tool for Windows.
A job scheduler is a computer application for controlling unattended background program execution (commonly called batch processing).
An important niche for job schedulers is managing the job queue for a cluster of computers.
In 1980, they developed their second "big hitter" and most profitable product, UCC-7 (job scheduler).
Cron is the time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.