1. A system for terminating processes that are executing on a plurality of distributed computing nodes, comprising: a batch queuing system configured to receive jobs from a user and to dispatch jobs to the distributed computing nodes; a process shutdown interface, configured to receive task criteria for terminating jobs corresponding to the task criteria on the distributed computing nodes; and an automatic process shutdown module, in communication with the process shutdown interface, configured to retrieve information based on the task criteria from the batch queuing system regarding the processing location of jobs submitted to the batch queuing system, and configured to terminate the processes on the computing nodes for jobs that are identified using the information obtained from the batch queuing system.