New Grid Engine Open Source Modules Released to the Public
Regensburg, Germany -- December 13, 2006
As announced at SuperComputing 2006 Sun releases new open source modules to the Grid Engine project. Today we are going live with the Grid Engine Service Domain Management module (project Hedeby) and with the Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting Console (project ARCo). Both projects are written in the Java programming language.
Project Hedeby provides access to a new technology which allows to dynamically manage resources across so called Service Domains. Service Domains can be envisioned as autonomous Grids controlled by a resource manager including but not limited to Grid Engine. Hedeby will adjust the allocation of resources to individual service domains in order to meet Service Level Objectives. Reallocating a host resource to another service domain may include re-provisioning of the underlying virtual or actual operating system stack. Project Hedeby is still in its early stages and should be considered work in progress
The project home URL is at:
How to get involved: Have a look at the project home page and the Javadocs documentation and subscribe to the developer and users mailing list of project Hedeby.
The Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo) is based upon standard technology such as Java[tm], SQL, JDBC. Providing source code access and thus opening up the interfaces will make Grid Engine's accounting and reporting infrastructure ideally suited for development projects in new areas. It will facilitate operational model like utility computing or will allow to integrate the comprehensive Grid Engine accounting data into existing reporting tools. ARCo has been part of Sun's N1 Grid Engine 6.0 software since 2004.
The project home URL is at
Project ARCo shares the same mailing lists and Issuezilla as the Gridengine open source project. Courtesy binaries of ARCo will be made available under the courtesy binary download link of the Grid Engine software.
