Sun Grid Engine software is a highly scalable distributed resource management (DRM) system that allows administrators to accurately model compute resources and business policies in order to achieve optimum utilization of resources and a higher level of productivity for users.

The latest release of Sun Grid Engine (SGE) is 6.2.

New Features

• Advance Reservation
• Multi-Cluster
• Significant scalability improvements
• ARCo (Accounting and Reporting Console) Improvements
• New Array Task Dependency
• New subscription pricing
• Support for Solaris 10 startup scripts (SMF - Solaris Management Facility)
• Support for Sun Service Tags
• Scalability to 63,000 CPU cores
• Free 30 days evaluation support

Bob Porras - Vice President, Solaris Data, Availability, Scalability & HPC, says, "What is really exciting is the new Service Domain Manager capability of Sun Grid Engine 6.2, click here to see a demo of managing elastic resources. Totally applicable to your cloud including network.com and other cloud resources. Dynamic, on the fly and transparent to your workload. Check it out! "

More Information

• Sun Grid Engine Home
• Wiki: Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Release Notes
• Grid Engine Project - community site
• Sun Grid Engine 6.2 data sheet
• Sun Grid Engine 6.2 podcast
• Sun Grid Engine 6.2 news release
• Sun Grid Engine Sun News Radio broadcast
• Sun Grid Engine 6.2 feature discussion from Sun Blogs
• Sun Grid Engine 5.3/6.0/6.1/6.2 feature comparison from Sun blogs
• Grid Engine open source t-shirt contest
• Cloud Computing with Sun Grid Engine 6.2, Service Domain Manager, and Amazon EC2 [...read more...]
  
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