Job Scheduler for Local Machine

I would guess that it is possible to deploy PBS and SLURM on your local machine, but I'd personally say that's a bit overkill.

I tend to use simple bash scripts. You can then list the execution commands like a to-do list, it is possible to run multiple jobs in parallel, and place a wait signal for them to finish, before continuing down the list. You can also easily pipe the individual program outputs to output files. Chances are that your local machine has 4/8/16 cores, so the decision of how many jobs you want to start at the same time is not that hard.

example:

#!/bin/sh
echo "starting first batch of jobs"
job1 &> job1_output.txt &&
job2 &> job2_output.txt &&

wait
echo "first two jobs finished"

job3 &> job3_output.txt &&
job4 &> job4_output.txt &&

wait
echo "all jobs finished"