Sun Grid Engine 6.1 (also known as N1 Grid Engine) provides policy-based workload management and
dynamic provisioning of application workloads. A Grid Engine 6.1 master
can manage a grid of up to ten thousand hosts, meeting the scalability
needs of even the largest grids.
The Sun Grid Engine 6.1 software - released May 8, 2007 - is the updated
commercial version of the open source Grid Engine project. The Grid
Engine open source software is used at thousands of productions sites
worldwide. Sun Grid Engine 6.1 is designed for organizations that need
fully supported software for maximum productivity. The Sun Grid Engine 6.1 enables organizations to build grids that help make knowledge-employees more productive than ever before.
Who needs Sun Grid Engine 6.1?
Sun Grid Engine can be downloaded and used for free. If the user needs a
support contract, a pre-requisite is to purchase a commercial
entitlement. Sun Grid Engine has a commercial entitlement based on
ranges of the total number of CPU-Sockets planned in the commercial grid,
and the number of master daemons. An enterprise wide entitlement is
available. This simplifies the task of auditing the licenses, while
allowing every single CPU in the company to run on the grid without
additional charges.
New Highlights specific for Sun Grid Engine 6.1
Flexible Resource Quotas
Boolean operators for requesting resources
Latest DRMAA 1.0 Java and C-language binding industry-standard API
support
Support for new platforms (Linux on IA64 Intel and Mac OS x for Intel)
Solaris 10 DTrace support for bottleneck analysis
These are in addition to all the functions already provided in the Sun Grid Engine 6.0 release, which include:
Incorporate Microsoft Windows desktops as execute and submit hosts
Supports virtually all commercial operating systems
Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo)
Enterprise-grade scalability (10,000 nodes per one master)
Detailed statistics gathering for analysis and utility billing
Sophisticated scheduler with resource reservation abilities
Try the software with free email support
A 30 day free email support is available for the users evaluating the
free download software. To qualify, prospective users must complete the
questionnaire.
500 MB of free disk space (minimum) if host is running a supported Microsoft Windows OS
100 MB of free disk space (minimum) if host is running a supported UNIX OS
Supported Operating Systems
Solaris 10, 9, and 8 Operating Systems (SPARC Platform Edition)
Solaris 10 and 9 Operating Systems (x86 Platform Edition)
Solaris 10 Operating System (x64 Platform Edition)
Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), PPC platform
Apple Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), x86 platform
Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.00 or higher (including HP-UX on IA64)
IBM AIX 5.1, 5.3
Linux x86, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2[1]
Linux x64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2[2]
Linux IA64, kernel 2.4, 2.6, glibc >= 2.3.2[1]
Silicon Graphics IRIX 6.5
Microsoft Windows Server 2003[3, 4], Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1 or later[3, 4], Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack 3 or later, Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
[1]: : For Linux on the x86 and IA64 platform the openmotif-2.2.2 package or higher is required [2]: For Linux on the x64 platform the openmotif-2.2.3 packages or higher is required [3]: The following Microsoft operating
systems are NOT supported: Windows 95,
Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition,
Windows XP Home Edition, Windows NT
Workstation, and Windows NT Server. [4]: Requires Microsoft Windows Services
for UNIX 3.5
