Announcing Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 Beta
Sun 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
