Rising Sun Pictures Adds Array Job Interdependencies to GE
Today we are proud to announce the release of the Grid Engine Array Job
Interdependency (ARI) Snapshot courtesy binaries. Array job interdependencies
allow to run an individual successor tasks upon completion of their predecessor
tasks in a flexible way. The design of the Grid Engine ARI functionality can be
found here:
This release is intended to be a public testing and developer solicitation release.
The code for this much demanded feature was contributed under the SISSL license by Rising Sun Pictures (RSP), Australia based feature film visual effects specialist (e.g. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings). Special thanks goes to John Allen (RSP) who did all the hard work of implementing the changes, to Matthew Landauer (RSP) and John Van Leeuwen (RSP) who wrote the specification and to Andreas Haas (Sun) who supported RSP during the whole specification and implementation time. It is planned to add this functionality to the next major update release of Grid Engine.
The courtesy binaries for a broad range of operating systems are available at:
Please test this snapshot and send support questions and feedback to the "users" mailing list of the Grid Engine open source project.
The corresponding source code tag in the "gridengine" project CVS repository has the name
The corresponding source snapshots are available at the Documents & files page:
