# How to get accounting information of Opeb PBS?

**URL:** <https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-get-accounting-information-of-opeb-pbs/837>\
**Category:** Users/Site Administrators\
**Created:** [January 17, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-get-accounting-information-of-opeb-pbs/837 "2018-01-17T09:40:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![ishihara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9dc877/32.png) [@ishihara](https://community.openpbs.org/u/ishihara)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 9:40am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-get-accounting-information-of-opeb-pbs/837/1 "2018-01-17T09:40:38Z")

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Hi all:

how to get accounting information of Open PBS?

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**Author:** ![adarsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@adarsh](https://community.openpbs.org/u/adarsh)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-get-accounting-information-of-opeb-pbs/837/2 "2018-01-17T12:25:24Z")

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Hi,

Please check this information:

> [@PBS Default number of nodes and number of cpus](http://community.openpbs.org/t/pbs-default-number-of-nodes-and-number-of-cpus/834/4):
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> So a little history for your knowledge. PBS was originally developed for NASA under a contract project. Altair Engineering acquired the rights to all the PBS technology and intellectual property from Veridian in 2003. Altair Engineering currently owns and maintains the intellectual property associated with PBS, and also employs the original development team from NASA. The following versions of PBS are currently available: OpenPBS — original open source version released by MRJ in 1998 (not ac…

> [@OpenPBS\_2\_3\_16.tar.gz](http://community.openpbs.org/t/openpbs-2-3-16-tar-gz/804/2):
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> While OpenPBS is historically part of the PBS Pro lineage, it is not affiliated with the current open source PBS Pro project. Perhaps you can find what you need here… [http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/openpbs/](http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/openpbs/)

The accounting information is stored in this location $PBS\_HOME/server\_priv/accounting in case of PBS Pro Commercial and PBS Pro OSS releases.

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**Author:** ![agurban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.openpbs.org/agurban/32/67_2.png) [@agurban](https://community.openpbs.org/u/agurban)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/how-to-get-accounting-information-of-opeb-pbs/837/3 "2018-01-17T18:57:51Z")

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Hello,

See the PBS Admin Guide chapter on accounting.