[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Open Grid Scheduler (resubmit as a list member)

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:20:52PM +0100, Dave Love wrote:
> > There is the Open Grid Scheduler [1] and the Son of Grid Engine [4]. I
> > see others also ask: what is upstream for gridengine-* now?
> 
> It seems there isn't one, though there are actually two or three
> important fixes from the sunsource repo post-6.2u5.
 
If you could isolate those in patches, that would be great.  If they are
not very big, it should not be a problem to get those fixes applied to
the current gridengine packages for wheezy, but the release team will
have to review and approve the changes.

> > We use the gridengine-* packages in our group for the grid. Seeing
> > the present situation I wonder:
> >
> > * Should our group move to condor [3] or slurm [5] (or something else)
> > instead? What would you recommend?
> 
> Why do you need to use something else?  [4] builds easily on Debian,
> although the binary tarball was built on Ubuntu (sorry).  

Did the directory/file etc. layout change a lot from gridengine (modulo
renaming), i.e. would it be rather easy to use the current gridengine
debian/-directory with it, possibly applying some sed-magic for
renaming?

> It doesn't yet have the advantage of packaging, but does give you a
> shareable installation with the util directory present, for instance.
> I am working on a dpkg, but unfortunately our clusters run Red Hat,
> and I've had to spend time one other things.  (I'd welcome help.)

I think post-wheezy, we should be able to handle the packaging even
though we are not a lot of people.  It is however extremely valuable to
have somebody with upstream knowledge on board like you.


Michael