The Grid Engine Project

For companies involved in technical computing markets such as EDA, DCC, Bioinformatics, Oil/Gas, and MCAE, Grid Computing solutions from Sun provide the foundation to enjoy the benefits which the Grid Computing model provides:

• increased productivity
• improved product quality
• reduced time to market
• increased ROI

Sun eliminated the price barrier of adopting Grid Computing with the introduction of Sun N1 Grid Engine (formerly Sun Grid Engine) -- robust Distributed Resource Management software -- for free!

Sun is now advancing the state of Grid Computing again with the Grid Engine open source initiative. The Grid Engine project will facilitate the advancement of Grid Engine technology through collaborative development, establish community-driven standards for Grid Computing, and enable developers to create innovative services and applications across heterogeneous environments.

Through the Grid Engine project, the source files used to create N1 Grid Engine software are made available at no cost under an open source license. Now the broad community of end users, application developers, integrators, and service and support organizations have an advanced commercially proven technology for Grid Computing available in open source!