Sun released new version of Sun Grid Engine – 6.2 Update 3. That’s new:
- Amazon EC2 adapter – SDM Cloud Service Adapter now is avaialable to scale SGE cluster in EC2 – they only need to have OpenVPN installed on instances, and special configuration for IP addresses ( SGE is still very picky about DNS ) – more about restriction is here and here’s bash scripts which used for EC2 deployment. By the way I see that OpenSolaris is still only one OS which available for SGE on EC2, if you’re looking for some SGE/EC2 solutions you may check out Convergence proejct which deal with SGE/GemFire cluster installation on EC2 – see Installing SGE on EC2, or Hedeby installation on EC2.
- Now only one JVM can be runned on master or managed host – in previous version SGE ran 3 JVM on every host – one for cs_vm ( configuration service ), executor_vm ( executor component ) and rp_vm ( resource provider ). In SGE terminology it called SDM simple install.
- Now SGE have Exclusive Scheduling – this helps to guarantee predictable performance and to avoid interference when a job is not using all of the slots that are available on a host
- Sun declared that now SGE have Microsoft Vista Support ( don’t think that there’s too much SGE installations on Vista ) and also some usual marking speech about Power Saving features
upd. Also there’s new Sun Studio 12 Update 1 is available too.
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