GridEngine News

[Ron Chen]

For those of you don't know, GridEngine is an
opensource batch scheduler that is commonly used by
HPC labs and edu sites. (It used to be a commerical
product that costs over $500 US per CPU!!)

Anyways, some News updates:

1. GridEngine 5.2.3.1 released.
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Bug fix release 5.2.3.1 released, with a number of
bugs fixed:
http://supportforum.sun.com/gridengine/revision_history.html

2. GridEngine 5.3 beta
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SGE 5.3 has implemented a new set of scheduling
policies and imploved scalability:
http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/beta/sgeee53b/

3. SGE-Maui Integration
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Many HPC labs and beowulf clusters run the Maui
scheduler, which has its unqiue back-filling
scheduling ability. An integration with SGE is
currently under development:
http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/BrowseList?listName=dev&by=date&from=2001-12-01&to=2001-12-31&count=26&first=22

 -Ron





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