Announcing Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 Beta
April 24th, 2009 • Comments Off on Announcing Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 BetaSun Grid Engine 6.2. Update 3 Beta has been released. This is a beta version so feel free to try and test it. The Beta closes Wednesday 5/20/2009. The final release will be around June 2009.
The great team of engineers added some nice features to this feature update:
Sun Grid Engine Inspect: SGE Inspect, a new Monitoring and Configuration Console, allows to monitor
Sun Grid Engine clusters and to monitor and configure the Service Domain
Manager (SDM).
Service Domain Manager (SDM) – Cloud Adapter and Initial Power Saving Support: The new SDM service adapter interface adds support to manage external
virtual resources. The implementation provides an interface to manage
Amazon’s EC2 AMIs. Those AMIs could include SGE execution hosts which can be
added to a local Sun Grid Engine cluster.
The enhanced spare pool implementation can be configured to power cycle
machines when being added or removed from the spare pool.
"Exclusive Job" Scheduling Enhancement:
Jobs and all parallel tasks of a job can request exclusive scheduling on a
host. Jobs requiring resources only available for one job per host or jobs
having access patterns to hardware resources like CPUs or memory, which make
it useful to run only one job per machine can request non shared access.
Complete Microsoft Windows Vista Support: A native Windows job can now open a GUI on a Windows Vista and Windows
Server 2008 desktop (SGE 6.2u2 added support for those Windows operating
systems)
More information can be found here:
- Download
http://www.sun.com/software/sge/get_it.jsp
- Documentation
http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3
Support and Feedback:
- Technical support alias: sge-beta AT sun.com
- Feedback on documentation: sge-beta-doc AT sun.com
- General feedback: sge-beta-feedback AT sun.com
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