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| Oracle Grid Engine | |
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| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation (formerlySun Microsystems) in association with the community |
| Stable release | 6.2u8; see the information on forks in the first section for sources for recent versions of the technology / October 1, 2012 (2012-10-01) |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Grid computing |
| License | SISSL |
| Website | www |
Oracle Grid Engine,[1] previously known asSun Grid Engine (SGE),CODINE (Computing in Distributed Networked Environments) orGRD (Global Resource Director),[2] was agrid computingcomputer cluster software system (otherwise known as abatch-queuing system), acquired as part of a purchase of Gridware,[3] then improved and supported bySun Microsystems and laterOracle. There have been open source versions and multiple commercial versions of this technology, initially from Sun, later from Oracle, then fromUniva Corporation, and later fromHPC Gridware as Gridware Cluster Scheduler. The open source version is still under active development under theSISSL license as Open Cluster Scheduler.[4]
On October 22, 2013 Univa announced it acquired theintellectual property and trademarks for the Grid Engine technology and that Univa will take over support.[5] Univa has since evolved the Grid Engine technology, e.g. improving scalability as demonstrated by a 1 million core cluster inAmazon Web Services (AWS) announced on June 24, 2018.[6]
The original Grid Engine open-source project website closed in 2010, but versions of the technology are still available under its originalSun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).[7] Those projects were forked from the original project code and are known as Son of Grid Engine,[8] Open Grid Scheduler,[9]Univa Grid Engine.,[10] Open Cluster Scheduler, and Gridware Cluster Scheduler.
Grid Engine is typically used on a computer farm orhigh-performance computing (HPC)cluster and is responsible for accepting, scheduling, dispatching, and managing the remote and distributed execution of large numbers of standalone, parallel or interactive user jobs. It also manages and schedules the allocation of distributed resources such as processors, memory, disk space, andsoftware licenses.
Grid Engine used to be the foundation of theSun Gridutility computing system, made available over theInternet in theUnited States in 2006,[11] later becoming available in many other countries and having been an early version of a publiccloud computing facility predating AWS, for instance.
In 2000, Sun acquired Gridware a privately owned commercial vendor of advanced computing resource management software with offices in San Jose, Calif., and Regensburg, Germany.[12] Later that year, Sun offered a free version of Gridware for Solaris and Linux, and renamed the product Sun Grid Engine.
In 2001, Sun made thesource code available,[13] and adopted the open source development model. Ports for Mac OS X and *BSD were contributed by the non-Sun open source developers.[14]
In 2010, after the purchase of Sun by Oracle, the Grid Engine 6.2 update 6 source code was not included with the binaries, and changes were not put back to the project's source repository.[15] In response to this, the Grid Engine community started the Open Grid Scheduler project to continue to develop and maintain a free implementation of Grid Engine.[16][17][18]
On January 18, 2011, it was announced thatUniva had recruited several principal engineers from the former Sun Grid Engine team and that Univa would be developing their ownforked version of Grid Engine. The newly announcedUniva Grid Engine did include commercial support and would compete with the official version of Oracle Grid Engine.[19][20][21]
On October 22, 2013 Univa has announced that it had acquired theintellectual property and trademarks pertaining to the Grid Engine technology and that Univa will take over support for Oracle Grid Engine customers.[22]
In September 2020,Altair Engineering, a global technology company providing solutions in data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC) acquired Univa.[23]
2023 the lead developers of Sun Grid Engine, Oracle Grid Engine, Univa Grid Engine and successor decided to buildGridware Cluster Scheduler(GCS) based on their open source Open Cluster Scheduler which is 100% "SGE" backward compatible.[24]
A typical Grid Engine cluster consists of a master host and one or more execution hosts. Multipleshadow masters can also be configured ashot spares, which take over the role of the master when the original master host crashes.[25]
Univa is providing commercial support and training forUniva Grid Engine and Oracle Grid Engine. Below is a description of some of the historic options.
Sun provided support contracts for the commercial version of Grid Engine on mostUNIX platforms andWindows.[26] Professional services, consulting, training, and support were provided by Sun Partners.[27] Sun partners withGeorgetown University to deliver Grid Engine administration classes.[28]The Bioteam runs short SGE training workshops that are 1 or 2 days long.[29]
Users obtained community support on the Grid Engine mailing lists.[30]Grid Engine Workshops were held in 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, and 2012 inRegensburg, Germany.[31]
The below contains historic information and some of the products and solutions are no longer available:
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