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| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation (formerly Sun Microsystems) in association with the community |
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| Stable release | 6.2u8; see the information on forks in the first section for sources for recent versions of the technology
/ October 1, 2012 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Grid computing |
| License | SISSL |
| Website | www |
Oracle Grid Engine,[1] previously known as Sun Grid Engine (SGE), CODINE (Computing in Distributed Networked Environments) or GRD (Global Resource Director),[2] was a grid computing computer cluster software system (otherwise known as a batch-queuing system), acquired as part of a purchase of Gridware,[3] then improved and supported by Sun Microsystems and later Oracle. There have been open source versions and multiple commercial versions of this technology, initially from Sun, later from Oracle and then from Univa Corporation.
On October 22, 2013 Univa announced it acquired the intellectual property and trademarks for the Grid Engine technology and that Univa will take over support.[4] Univa has since evolved the Grid Engine technology, e.g. improving scalability as demonstrated by a 1 million core cluster in Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on June 24, 2018.[5]
The original Grid Engine open-source project website closed in 2010, but versions of the technology are still available under its original Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).[6] Those projects were forked from the original project code and are known as Son of Grid Engine,[7] Open Grid Scheduler[8] and Univa Grid Engine.[9]
Grid Engine is typically used on a computer farm or high-performance computing (HPC) cluster and is responsible for accepting, scheduling, dispatching, and managing the remote and distributed execution of large numbers of standalone, parallel or interactive user jobs. It also manages and schedules the allocation of distributed resources such as processors, memory, disk space, and software licenses.
Grid Engine used to be the foundation of the Sun Grid utility computing system, made available over the Internet in the United States in 2006,[10] later becoming available in many other countries and having been an early version of a public cloud computing facility predating AWS, for instance.
- ^ "Oracle Grid Engine". Oracle Corporation. 2010-05-30.
- ^ "A Little History Lesson". Sun Microsystems. 2006-06-23.
- ^ "Sun snaps up software company Gridware - CNET".
- ^ "Univa Completes Acquisition of Grid Engine Assets, Becoming the Sole Commercial Provider of Grid Engine Software". Univa Corporation. 2013-10-22.
- ^ "Univa Demonstrates Extreme Scale Automation by Deploying More Than One Million Cores in a Single Univa Grid Engine Cluster using AWS". Univa. 2018-06-24. Retrieved June 24, 2018.
- ^ "The Grid Engine Source License". Sun MicroSystems. 2010-06-04. Archived from the original on 2013-11-12. Retrieved 2013-10-23.
- ^ "Son of Grid Engine". University of Liverpool. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021.
- ^ "Open Grid Scheduler". The Open Grid Scheduler Community.
- ^ "Univa Grid Engine". Univa.
- ^ "World's First Utility Grid Comes Alive on the Internet". Sun Microsystems. 2006-03-22.