NewsForge: Grid computing from Sun–Open Source and Proud of It

“Sun’s open source Grid Engine software currently runs over 7000
grids with an average of 47 CPUs per grid, and a steadily
increasing percentage of the grids it powers run Linux, according
to John Tollefsrud, Sun’s Grid marketing manager.

“This is not a Sun software product that gets as much press or
visibility as Java, and the 21,000+ Grid Engine download total (as
of November 29, 2002) hardly compares with the hundreds of
thousands of downloads per month the Sun-sponsored OpenOffice
project boasts. But in some ways, in the long run, Grid Engine may
be as influential as these other, higher-profile projects.

“There’s also a commercial Grid Engine Enterprise Edition
available for companies that want to spend money on the software
(and on support contracts) instead using the free, open source
version which, according to Tollefsrud, runs exactly the same
code…”

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