Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5

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Sun Grid Engine software is the world's leading - and most widely deployed - distributed resource manager. Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 brings you even more power and the ability to lower the costs even more than ever before.

Why Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5?
(1) It runs Hadoop Apache as a data center application. No dedicated Hadoop cluster needed.
(2) It is able to schedule applications that are sensitive to CPU topologies to maximize their performance, cutting execution times in some cases by over 50%.
(3) Resources can be automatically rented and provisioned from the Amazon EC2 service to keep up with peak demand. It is much better than buying and keeping them idle during low demand.
(4) It does power conservation by turning off idle systems and turning them on, when demand justifies it.

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Hadoop Integration: Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 reduces the cost of running Apache Hadoop applications by enabling them to share resources with other data center applications, rather than having to maintain a dedicated cluster for running Hadoop applications. In addition, Sun Grid Engine's advanced features, like its rich scheduling policies and accounting database. greatly reduce the cost of managing Hadoop applications. Apache Hadoop is "a powerful tool designed for deep analysis and transformation of very large data sets."
Cloud Bursting: Using Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5, additional resources can be automatically provision from the Amazon EC2 service to process peak application workloads. Access to on-demand cloud resources reduces the need to provision data center capacity according to peak demand, which reduces the data center's operating costs.
Topology-aware scheduling: Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 is able to schedule applications that are sensitive to CPU topologies to maximize their performance, cutting execution times in some cases by over 50%.
Power conservation: Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 can automatically manage the power settings of idle systems during off-peak hours, thereby reducing their power consumption and driving down the overall data center operating costs.
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Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 Hadoop integration is a world first for a resource management software scheduler

Leverage your existing hardware and operating systems

Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 preserves your current IT investments and enables flexibility for the future.

Largest number of installs worldwide

Grid Engine open source software is used at thousands of production sites around the world.

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"The Sun Grid Engine 6.2 update 5 software has dramatically lowered for us the cost of data intensive, Hadoop centered, computing. With its native understanding of HDFS data locality and direct support for Hadoop job submission, Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 allows us to run Hadoop jobs within exactly the same scheduling and submission environment we use for traditional scalar and parallel loads.

Before Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 5 we were forced to either dedicate specialized clusters or to make use of convoluted, ad-hoc, integration schemes; solutions that were both expensive to maintain and inefficient to run. Now we have the best of both worlds: high flexibility within a single, consistent and robust, scheduling system"

— Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4
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