Announcing Grid Engine 6.1 Preview Binaries
Regensburg, Germany -- December 13, 2006
Grid Engine 6.1 Preview courtesy binaries are now ready for download.
Grid Engine 6.1 will be the next step in the evolution of the Grid Engine software. This release will help administrators to better manage access to computational resources in a cluster and continues to improve its excellent scalability in large clusters with a huge amount of jobs.
Minor features may be added to the final Grid Engine 6.1 release. A Beta program is planned to be started in February 2006.
New functionality delivered with this preview release:
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Resource Quotas allow to limit the maximum number of running jobs per
user, user group, projects on arbitrary resources like queues, hosts,
memory, software licenses. A firewall-like rule syntax allows an
unprecedented flexibility in defining Grid Engine Resource Quotas (RQ).
The man pages qquota(1), sge_resource_quota(5) and qconf(1) describe
the new functionality. The design of the Resource Quotas can be found
here
- the Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting Console (ARCo) is now part of the open source project and included with the courtesy binaries.
- support for Mac OS/X on the x86 platform
- support for Linux on Itanium (IA64)
- a Solaris 10 DTrace script supports monitoring and helps to do a bottleneck analysis
- with the help of our community members job online usage is now supported for Apple Mac OS/X, IBM AIX and HP HP/UX
- for developers an early access to a Java API (JGDI) to Grid Engine will be provided as a seperate download The courtesy binaries are available at
The corresponding source code tag in the "gridengine" and "arco" project CVS repository has the name
V61preview_TAG
A snapshot of the sources is available at the Documents & files page:
