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The type of software you're describing is usually called a "batch scheduler", or more recently, "workload automation".

Some references that might help:

A perl module that I haven't used, but looks related:

BatchSystem::SBS

What you're asking for also has a lot of parallels with testing frameworks, as well as grid/cloud management, so you might find something in one of those spaces that works.

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Re^2: Task orchestrator or distributed state machine
by kschwab (Vicar) on Jul 09, 2014 at 14:09 UTC

    Also, while it doesn't support many of the things you asked for, gearman is a sort of generic task/job management framework that has a perl api.

    Here's an example of the perl api.

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