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

[Dave Love]

Laszlo Kajan <lkajan at rostlab.org> writes:

> 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.

> 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).  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.)

Otherwise, if you're running on an HPC cluster and think you need a
different DRM, I'd say use SLURM.  It's currently missing some SGE
scheduling features and support for other architectures, for instance,
but has various resource management features that aren't yet in SGE.

> [4] https://arc.liv.ac.uk/trac/SGE and http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/

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