Open Grid Scheduler

About Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine

Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine is a free and open-source batch-queuing system for distributed resource management. OGS/GE is based on Sun Grid Engine, and maintained by the same group of external (i.e. non-Sun) developers who started contributing code since 2001.

In Dec 2010, Oracle officially passed on the torch for maintaining the Grid Engine open source code base to the Open Grid Scheduler project.

News

April 17, 2012: Two Grid Engine security bugs fixed.

April 3, 2012: New Corporate Member - Gompute, providing comprehensive services and technologies for Technical & Scientific computing, leveraging the Gompute Software Stack and Gompute On-Demand Service will contribute its expertise and resources in HPC to the open source Grid Engine community.

Next Release

The next feature release, Grid Engine 2011.11 update 1, will be unveiled at the Gompute User Group Meeting. Register for the free conference if you are in the HPC industry!

Current Release: Grid Engine 2011.11

The latest release includes new features (e.g. Berkeley DB spooling improvement: removed dependency on NFSv4, hwloc support, GPU integration, ARM Linux port, gmake upgrade, Linux 3.x support, etc), together with other enhancements and bug fixes. See the release notes for more info!

Grid Engine 2011.11 is compatible with Sun Grid Engine 6.2u5. You can even run Grid Engine 2011.11 on a subset of nodes while the rest of the cluster runs the older 6.2u5 release - ie. as a drop-in replacement for 6.2u5.

Download: Grid Engine 2011.11 binary for x64 (available under the free SISSL license)

The Grid Engine 2011.11 presentation given at SC11 at the Gridcore/Gompute booth will be posted shortly.

Bugfix Release

The current bugfix release is version 6.2 update 5 patch 2 (SGE 6.2u5p2), which is based on Sun Grid Engine 6.2 update 5 (SGE 6.2u5). It was released on March 31, 2011 and only contains bug fixes.

Download Grid Engine/Grid Scheduler

The latest version and older versions can be downloaded from the Open Grid Scheduler download area.

Download: Grid Engine 2011.11 binary for x64 (now with the GUI installer) (available under the free SISSL license)

Mailing Lists and Grid Engine Support Options

Community support is available on the Grid Engine users mailing list. Open Grid Scheduler specific issues (build issues or OGS-specific bug) can be discussed on the gridscheduler-users mailing list.

Commercial Grid Engine support is available from Scalable Logic via the Scalable Grid Engine Support Program.

Supported Platforms

Currently, Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine supports the following platforms:

AIX
BSDs, including FreeBSD & NetBSD, on most of the architectures supported by the operating systems
HP-UX on IA64 and PA-RISC
IRIX
Linux on Alpha, ARM, IBM POWER & PowerPC, IBM System z mainframe, IA64, MIPS & Loongson, SPARC, x86, and x86-64
Mac OS X
Solaris on SPARC, x86, and x86-64
Tru64
Windows (SFU & Cygwin, a native Windows port will be released in the future)

Other platforms with limited support: Cray UNICOS, NEC Super-UX, OpenBSD (let us know if you are running those operating systems)

Screenshots

Grid Engine Java Installer

Grid Engine at Oracle

Oracle continues to enhance and maintain the commercial Oracle Grid Engine product. There is an online forum at Oracle, actively supported by Oracle Grid Engine developers.

License

Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine is released under the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL). New code (new file) is licensed under the BSD license.

The fine print: Most of the code was taken from Sun Grid Engine (more specifically SGE 6.2 update 5 released in 2009), which was developed by Sun Microsystems. Using 6.2u5 as the starting point, we add new features and fixes to create Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine.