[gridengine users] Announcing Grid Engine 2011.11 and the Scalable Grid Engine Support Program

[William Hay]

On 9 November 2011 16:22, Rayson Ho <rayson at scalablelogic.com> wrote:
> The Open Grid Scheduler Project is releasing a new release: Grid
> Engine 2011.11. We are going back to the open source model that was
So the software is still called Grid Engine even though the project is
open Grid Scheduler?

> used by Sun Microsystems (2001 - 2009), together with optional
> commercial support, and with partners (more on that in a later email,
> and SC11 news too!) working together to improve Grid Engine.
>
> Release notes: http://www.scalablelogic.com/home/ReleaseNotes.pdf
>
> Source tarball and binary packages will be available early next week.
The scalablelogic.com website looks more than a bit unfinished.  Some
details of the optional commercial support would be appreciated.

Just typed "open grid scheduler" into google (in order to get a link
to the project page) and top of the results is an ad from Univa.
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>
We're currently still on 6.2u3 and obviously need to pick a successor
version.  My current thinking on the non-technical advantages of the
various Grid Engine Successors
Oracle: Commercial support from a Really Big Company
Univa: Commercial support by a company that employs most of the
original grid engine developers.
Open Grid Scheduler:  Commercial support available for a 100% open
source product.
Son of Grid Engine: 100% Open source project (modulo Fritz's comments
re:documentation) plus a huge easily accessible bug/feature request
tracker.

Presumably the other versions  could clone Dave's bug database since
he cloned it from the original SGE bug tracker and most of the bugs
probably apply
to  the other versions as well.

William